Sentence examples for under their orders from inspiring English sources

The French High Command hoped they would be able to close the gap, and the armies of the north were under their orders.

But at least the UN may be edging away from the fiction that governments, and people under their orders, are the only factors that determine the fate of nations.*Ending Wars, Consolidating Peace: Economic Perspectives, ed Berdal and Wennmann, IISS.

AGNES: O.K. PETER: Under their orders, the C.I.A. had smuggled Nazi scientists into the States to work with the American military at Calspan, developing an inner-epidermal tracking microchip AGNES: Wait PETER: A surveillance tool, a computer chip implanted in the skin of every human being born on this planet since 1982.

Under their lawyers' orders, they avoided bars and parties lest they be drawn into angry confrontations or be seen in situations that would create the appearance that they did not understand the magnitude of the Diallo tragedy.

He had no phone, so clients would slip their orders under the door, leaving an advance for Kelly to buy fabric.

I was waiting next to a window where customers pick up their orders under the shade of a ficus tree at the Stand, a vegan outpost whose red barn on Thalia Street has been part of the landscape in Laguna Beach since 1975.

Of the 30 people so far subjected to control orders, seven have absconded and another seven have had their orders quashed.Under Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which Britain has enacted into national law, no one may be deprived of his liberty save in certain circumstances after conviction of a crime, pending deportation, if deemed insane and so on.

But many counties have been under their own court orders to ease crowding in their jails.