What is "directives"

Usage examples of "directives".

Father cannily complied with Farm Directives and still managed to plant most of the Fenn lands to creditable crops like corn and beets.

The moment he was relieved of his watch, he disobeyed stern directives and trotted over to Hrrula's quarters.

I thought perhaps there were no partners available and I've had no directives from Central.

And, as it sounds religious and one of our prime Service directives is to be respectful to any and all religious orders, we should receive him.

After that, an entirely different set of directives controls the kind of authority, the type of contract, the wording and restrictions of the clauses, the payments and prerogatives of any further dealings we have with a BB ship.

My programming requires that I respond to the directives of any organics on board my person.

But if there were five, would I be counted among the critical number and consequently able to issue directives to which you would respond?

So I am correct in assuming that you will not accept any directives from me?

It detected our desperate calls for enlightenment and has come to rescue us from the arbitrary directives of humankind.

If Air Indonesia or Pakistani Air won't follow the Airworthiness Directives, we can't force them to.

But the company says Airworthiness Directives were issued that fixed the problems.

By issuing these air directives, which are supposed to fix the problem.

Wesley Mouch, Top Co-ordinator of the Bureau of Economic Planning and National Resources, "in a surprise move," said the paper, "and in the name of the national emergency," had issued a set of directives, which were strung in a column down the page: The railroads of the country were ordered to reduce the maximum speed of all trains to sixty miles per hour—to reduce the maximum length of all trains to sixty cars—and to run the same number of trains in every state of a zone composed of five neighboring states, the country being divided into such zones for the purpose.

Those directives that somebody issued here a few months ago are choking off the entire copper industry of this country.

And it surely didn't displease you—that morning, four months L ago, the day after the directives were issued—to see the kind of soaring leap that d'Anconia Copper performed on the Stock Exchange.