Sentence examples for written directive from inspiring English sources
The court's responsibility is quite simple: since there is no written directive, it must choose life.
But by Plato's time it had acquired the more-specific sense of a statute or a proclaimed or written directive that established a standard for human action.
Florida's so-called right-to-die law allows courts to consider testimony about the wishes of someone on life support if the person left no written directive.
Since there is no written directive, the courts must choose life (in a supposedly civilized society, you err for life over death).
Previous legislation granted amnesty to any company that received a written directive stipulating that the president had determined surveillance to be legal, whether or not that certification actually met the requirements of existing law.
Several commissioners seethed as they described how Mr. Harris this month issued a blunt written directive permitting the commission only to meet, to approve the minutes of their meetings and to adjourn — but to conduct no real city business.
The fact that Terri Schiavo did not leave written directives for her care does not mean she did not have preferences.
The district court found that another "purpose of the checkpoints is to check driver's licenses and vehicle registrations," and the written directives state that the police officers are to "look for signs of impairment".
And it would be speculative to conclude given the district court's findings, the written directives, and the actual arrests that petitioners would not have operated these roadblocks but for the state's interest in interdicting drugs.
I wonder how many of the politicians and citizens who called for Terri Schiavo to be kept alive have written directives to their families to keep themselves alive under similar conditions.
Advance written authorization can take the form of a prepaid cremation or final rites plan or written directives placed in your trust or will or life-planning documents prepared by your counsel.
