Sentence examples for the administration has directed from inspiring English sources

To address this problem, the administration has directed agencies to take steps to shrink the share of dollars obligated through new contracts where there is little or no competition, according to a July 2010 statement issued by the White House.

The federal officials emphasized in their statement that the Administration has directed BP to beef up its containment efforts; under the new plan, BP will be able to scavenge up to 53,000 barrels per day by the end of June and up to 80,000 barrels per day by mid July.

The administration had directed the academy to study the possibility of radically changing the management of astronomical research that relies on ground-based instruments, like radio telescopes and infrared sensors.

The White House said today that President Bush's top economic adviser, who had served as a paid consultant to the Enron Corporation before joining the administration, had directed a review of the broad economic effects of a potential collapse of the company but concluded it posed little risk to the American economy.

But this administration has directed all of the anger, fear and grief which emerged from the ashes of the Twin Towers and the twisted metal of the Pentagon towards a tangible villain, one we can see and hate and attack.

On the most practical level, the Obama Administration has directed the Department of Justice to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act.

California's secretary of state has established a task force to look into Internet voting, and the Clinton administration has directed the National Science Foundation to conduct a yearlong study of the issue.

The Obama administration has directed $250 million toward fighting the wildfires raging in California and elsewhere, in addition to $450 million already transferred from different parts of the federal budget earlier this year to go toward fighting such disasters, officials said Tuesday.

For example, "the Carter administration has directed more diplomacy to criticizing the Soviet violations of human rights than the Chinese violations" because "the United States had important security interests with the Soviet (Union)…and far more economic interests in Russia than in China" during the Cold War (Forsythe 1980, 43).

The Obama administration has directed billions of dollars to support emerging clean-energy technologies even as Congress has been unwilling to pass any sort of climate or renewable energy legislation.

A8 Bush Clears Way for Drilling The Bush administration has directed federal land managers to begin removing obstacles to oil and gas development in parts of five Rocky Mountain states.