Sentence examples for properly directed from inspiring English sources

Sanctions, like any other weapon, need to be properly directed if they are to work.

Through a spokeswoman, Mr. Wells insisted that the request had been properly directed.

The current administration's stimulus package was too small and not properly directed to create jobs.

In other words, aid could work if it were properly directed.

Our compassionate urges would be more properly directed toaid those suffering persons among us.

You keep noticing dead spots in the script where the actors don't seem to have been properly directed.

She quite properly directs this question — one that's also clearly on Laura Olmstead's mind — at Mr. Bar-Lev, who spends a bit of time worrying about his own motives and expressing ambivalence about his film.

"Having the right bar-code readers at critical points in the system assures they are read correctly," said Morgan Durrant, an airline spokesman, adding that this was critical to properly directing bags.

So the problem for a policymaker is to separate the price changes that are properly directing the flow of resources from those that aren't, and the size or rapidity of price changes is not enough to make this determination, the two types of price changes are difficult to sort out.

As the late philosopher Bernard Williams argued in his book Truth and Truthfulness, the play shows how the system short-changes the female student, because instead of exercising intellectual authority and properly directing her studies, the professor has only a relationship of power (partly gender-power) over her, generating the resentments that will become warped and venomous.

"And that means that police forces are not properly directing resource but it also means that citizens aren't engaged.