Sentence examples for wrong directives from inspiring English sources

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As a master of "realpolitik", the hungry-for-grandsons Satyavati asserted that to preserve the dynasty, wrong directives by elders should be followed if they are going to reduce the sorrow of a mother.

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I should then like to support Mr Liese who has emphasised that there is nothing wrong with the directive.

I happen to think that there is quite a lot wrong with the habitats directive.

A lawyer for Mr. Duncan, the Andersen partner who was fired yesterday, said his client had done nothing wrong but was just following directives on document retention and destruction that had been sent to Houston by a lawyer at Andersen's Chicago headquarters on Oct. 12.

On the face of it, there's nothing much wrong with communities secretary Eric Pickles' directive that council senior executive salaries over £100,000 should be approved by councillors.

A Ilyse Fink, a spokeswoman for the New York City Department of Buildings, said that the seller's lawyer appears to be using the term "Directive 14" in the wrong context.

And that's a careful and difficult balance which they felt the Data Retention Directive had got the wrong side of that balance," said Salmon.

At Hanoi, feeling that the Vietnamese had been wronged, he acted against Dupré's implicit directives and, presenting himself as Dupré's representative, ordered a cease-fire.

My mother got it wrong because she specified her wishes in an advance directive.

Those who argue against advance directives might say my mother and I got it wrong.

"Judge not" was among the shortest and simplest of Christ's directives, yet too often we seem to get it wrong.

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