Sentence examples for unusual directive from inspiring English sources

The highly unusual directive was outlined in a memorandum that Joshua B. Bolten, the White House chief of staff, issued to agency heads without public announcement.

As the backlog of calls grew — it ultimately reached 1,300 at its highest point — an unusual directive went out across the computer screens within ambulances, emergency workers said.

This unusual directive was inspired by one formidable man's cunning, his central role in a yearlong investigation into the mob's grip on the waterfront, and his body count: a dozen murders — several victims were F.B.I. informers — that for a time helped transform New Jersey into the Genovese crime family's abattoir.

In that case, the Homeland Security Department had imposed an unusual directive days before the 2008 election requiring high-level approval before federal agents nationwide could arrest fugitive immigrants including Zeituni Onyango, the half-sister of Obama's late father.

If Muhammad thought Allah was instructing him to be tough with disbelievers, he may be forgiven for not considering this an unusual directive given God's near-annihilation of humanity through the Noachian Flood and the genocide God ordered the ancient Israelites to carry out when they advanced into the Promised Land.

This unusual directive was particularly challenging to the study site, more so when receipt of most of these transmissions was not acknowledged by the regulatory body.

On Friday, The A.P. reported that she was in the country illegally and that her case had led to an unusual nationwide directive from Immigration and Customs Enforcement requiring that any deportations before the election on Tuesday be approved at least at the level of regional directors.

During the preperformance chat Mr. Muhly, a 28-year-old American, described some of his more unusual musical directives, like asking the flute to play with a "dusky vibrato".

Song Dong's mother appears to have followed the directive with unusual zeal, and after his father died in 2002, Song Dong decided her grief might be assuaged if she collaborated with him on a project that would alchemize into art the vast heaps of detritus she had accumulated over decades of state-encouraged hoarding.

Companies that do not complete the survey could face fines, although it is highly unusual for companies to ignore such directives.

Third, our analysis of the semi-structured focus group data was unusual in the sense that we were directive to the SWOT sub-groups and decided to largely ignore other information collected in this part of the data collection.