Sentence examples for the express order from inspiring English sources

Although de la Tour du Pin declined an invitation to be lady-in-waiting to the Empress Josephine, she spent evenings in her company in Bordeaux at the express order of Napoleon, whom she had always found charming.

Romain du Roi, (French: King's Roman), in printing, a roman typeface developed in France at the express order of King Louis XIV, who, in 1692, directed that a typeface be designed at any necessary expense for the exclusive use of the royal printer.

Even the Baroque Toompea Castle - rebuilt on the express orders of Catherine the Great in the 1700s - is home to Estonia's parliament.

He was assassinated by an Armenian in Berlin in 1922 – his body was later returned to Turkey on the express orders of Adolf Hitler.

There is a possibility that the soldiers fighting in the past few days have been doing so without the permission – or even against the express orders – of their leaders.

Most injuries were minor, although a Romanian boxer died from blood poisoning, apparently because he had competed "against the express orders of his physician, while suffering from boils which had not completely healed".

But al-Qaeda has a quasi-military structure, and plenty of precedents exist for killing enemy commanders in wartime: in April 1943 America ambushed Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese naval commander, on the express orders of President Franklin Roosevelt.

The Marion A. C. Meseck, was against the tug there held liable, because the tug had only acted under the express orders of the "harbormaster". Here, although the relations were reversed, that makes no difference in principle; and the "harbormaster" was not instructed what he should do about the fasts, but was allowed 172*172 to use his own judgment.

The islands were turned into an "impregnable fortress" on the express orders of Adolf Hitler.

The islands remained under German rule for five years and during that time were turned into an "impregnable fortress" on the express orders of Adolf Hitler.

FLOTTENRICHTER KRANZBUEHLER To what do you attribute the fact that despite this express order so few captains were taken prisoner?