Sentence examples for verbal orders from inspiring English sources

Nor did Saddam issue direct verbal orders to develop weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

Last year, for example, the authorities issued similar verbal orders against women smoking water pipes, but the ban was not enforced.

His Cambodian lawyer, Kar Savuth, said Duch - a maths teacher before joining the revolutionary cause in the 1960s - had no powers to arrest or kill anyone and was only following "verbal orders from the top".

Grierson recalled after the war that Hurlbut gave him only verbal orders because Hurlbut considered the mission too dangerous and doubtful "to take the responsibility to give definite or written orders for its execution".

The two Australian officers – lieutenants "Breaker" Morant and Handcock – executed by the British for shooting unarmed Boer prisoners during the South African war of 1899-1902 always claimed they were following verbal orders approved by their commander-in-chief, Sir Herbert Kitchener.

To describe the characteristics of verbal orders at a tertiary care children's hospital.

"Ríos Montt never gave a written or verbal order to exterminate the Ixils in this country," he reportedly said.

In April, the judge, Doris Ling-Cofan of State Supreme Court in Manhattan, issued a verbal order in the case, involving a 3-year-old Brooklyn girl identified in court papers as A.B. who never regained consciousness after a seizure on New Year's Eve.

On the evening of the 16th the mayor of Pelileo came to OVT to give a verbal order over the radio system that residents of Cusúa and other communities of his county must evacuate.

Historian Jeffrey D. Wert blames this oversight on Longstreet, describing it either as a misunderstanding of Lee's verbal order or a mistake.

At the same time, Nolan's method of delivery had been imperious, and he had insisted the urgency of the attack - something clear in Raglan's verbal order to him, but not in the written order.