Sentence examples for severe directives from inspiring English sources

The opening pages, Genesis-like, call the child's world into being, his early life created via a series of severe directives: "Birth him with his father away" and "Move the family to a tobacco county in Southside Virginia" and "Make the ­mother cry and miss her mother".

He emphasized several Politburo directives.

A decree issued early last year to implement a European Union directive laid down severe penalties where such accounts contain more than €12,500: fines of 20% of balances up to €50,000 and 40% above that.

World Rugby, in their wisdom, have chosen not to deal with the cause of so many head injuries but to come down hard instead on the lottery of the outcomes, their directives muttering darkly about the severest sanctions.

Ms. Teno said that government numbers for 1999, the latest available, indicate that nationwide only 35percentt of people with severe cognitive impairment have an advance directive.

Dr. Chen said he would not be able to perform his job as a neurosurgeon were he to suffer a severe stroke, and his own advance directive specifies that a craniectomy should not be performed on him.

Husted has made it clear that any defiance of his directive will result in severe consequences.

Even the threat of excommunication failed to deter the armies, although their reluctance to accede to the papal directive is doubtless a reflection of the severe financial problems that confronted them.

She had severe dementia, was bed-bound, had no relatives or advance directive.

Only after tests revealed severe fetal "abnormalities" did a judge overrule the hospital's directive and order Muñoz to be disconnected from the machines.

In Mosul, an IS announcement in August demanded that all women cover themselves from head-to-toe, threatening severe punishment for those who do not abide by the directive.