Dr. Jeffrey L. Ecker, the chairman of the committee on obstetrics practice for A.C.O.G., acknowledged that doctors used to take a "directive approach of 'Do this, don't do that, end of story.'" But now, he said, relationships with expectant patients have evolved into more of a "shared decision-making model".
Law, fit to take a directive place in practical reasoning towards morally sound judgment, is for the sake of human persons: all the members of the community regulated by that law and all other persons within that law's ambit.
Although there is over two decades of literature addressing CHWs, much of this is policy-driven, taking a directive, normative tone.
Laura Oswald, author of Marketing Semiotics: Signs, Strategies, and Brand Value explains that "the stores are taking a functional directive and turning it into a metaphor or a hyperbole; it's a rhetorical style and a poetic use of language".
In lines 16 21, Massimo takes a more directive stance by strongly soliciting Franco to admit that he did not take the medication.
When probed about what kinds of things they do to strengthen their relationship with patients, it became evident that developing a long-term relationship tended to be achieved by taking a non-directive approach when speaking about evidence.
In another indication of how contentious the issue has become, a man was escorted by police out of the meeting after interrupting another speaker and ignoring directives to take a seat.
In 1978, when the third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee in China took place, a directive for local management of croplands was proposed.
Comey testified in June that Trump pressed him for a loyalty pledge and said he "hoped" that the FBI director would "let this go" — this being the investigation of Michael Flynn — a wish Comey said he took as a directive.
All it takes is a directive to go full throttle, as in this case where three-star Lt. General William Caldwell is accused of directing the IO head Holmes to get inside the heads of the friendlies and figure out where their soft spots and pressure points are.
This trend is probably being arrested, however, at least for several major fisheries, as a result of firm, recent measures being taken following a directive to the Australian Fisheries Management Authority in November 2005 by the Australian Government Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation and the introduction of a Commonwealth Fisheries Harvest Strategy Policy.
