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Discover Ludwig"prime directive" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a fundamental or essential principle or rule. Example: In business, it is important to follow the prime directive of "the customer is always right." This means that the needs and satisfaction of the customer should always be the top priority.
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prime directive
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An order or mission which presents the overriding control over a course of action.
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Prime Directive, at the jazz club Smoke.
More than for its counterparts, the central bank's prime directive is to protect price stability.
But if it replaces creativity as the "prime directive", the connection to inspiration is in trouble.
Then, following theater's prime directive, "Use it," cast members began to react to the fireworks — in character.
(Long story, involving a volcano: basically, Kirk was more of a humanitarian interventionist than the Prime Directive allows).
For this week's Goings On About Town opening photograph, Lisa Kereszi photographed Prime Directive at Smoke Jazz and Supper Club.
The pieces collected here, he confesses, are "violations of that early prime directive" to rely sheerly on invention.
Imagine any contemporary woman having "concerns" that would top the all-consuming prime directive to be thin.
More ambitious, though, is Star Trek: Prime Directive in development at the mobile content provider Digital Bridges.
The prime directive for freshmen, freely expressed by politicians of every stripe every two years, is that they should be seen and not heard.
But alas, their behavior more often follows what seems to be their Prime Directive: Thou shalt not, under any circumstances, put thy foot on the ground.
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