Sentence examples for vague orders from inspiring English sources

He seemed uneasy, a man under vague orders.

Those kinds of vague orders were the equivalent of my saying to the S.P.E.

You get to issue vague orders along the lines of "Just get it done".

Working under vague orders, By spent the first year inspecting the proposed route of the Rideau Canal.

As a young officer, Sharon was used by men like Moshe Dayan, who wanted to shield themselves politically and diplomatically from the consequences of their own vague orders, orders of the who-will-rid-me-of-this-troublesome-archbishop variety.

Although By had approval for the larger, more expensive locks that he built, the original vague orders, along with the poor communication between By in Canada and the British Ordnance and Parliament in Great Britain, contributed to the Rideau Canal becoming the most expensive military-financed public work project undertaken in any British colony in the 19th century.

There is vague order to the everything else, but it scarcely matters.

The vague order made it nearly impossible to distinguish between dissent and disloyalty, and widespread arrests followed.

At the film's conclusion, it looms again, when the ship's sole survivor, Dave Bowman, witnesses the eclipse of human intelligence by a vague new order of being.

A less charitable interpretation might be that Bettelheim kept his stories vague in order not to trip himself up -- or, more generously, that Raines was simply unwilling to press an elderly, depressed man on the hard questions.

cThe information provided about the sample and the respondents' organizations is deliberately vague in order to protect their anonymity.