Ministers cannot instruct parliamentary committees as to what they should do.
He cannot instruct the unions; they control how they conduct their ballots.
Moreover, unaware L2 teachers of assessment literacy cannot instruct their learners how to implement self/peer-assessment so the learners will be illiterate in terms of self/peer-assessment, too.
Herbert said the society would take up the FA's handling of the allegations with sports minister Hugh Robertson, who responded: "They are welcome to approach me but I cannot instruct Chelsea to make criminal complaints; that is an argument he needs to have with Chelsea.
In addition, exposed flies cannot instruct other flies of the threat if their wings are absent or deformed.
Our reasoning was that if you cannot identify the reason for dislocations, you cannot instruct the patients in protective behavior to avoid this potentially undesirable movement.
In other words, environmental perturbations are never instructive for a system; on the other hand, without perturbations a system cannot instruct itself about what shall be done.
"Government cannot instruct these trillions of pounds and dollars that are in the control of private funds to move from x to y.
"We would prefer not to pursue a case based on deceit but as presently instructed we cannot see how this can be avoided," said Jim Rai, head of litigation at Winckworth Sherwood, which is acting for Lloyds Action Now.
In New York City, for example, 147,000 of the 1.1 million public school children receive special-education services; 7,445 of them, most severely handicapped, attend private schools at taxpayer expense because the city agrees that it cannot properly instruct them, said Lindsey Harr, a spokeswoman for the city education department.
