A rule or principle that provides guidance to appropriate behavior

Usage examples of guideline.

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I used to nick people for pollution, breaching research guidelines, illegal biomaterials, that sort of thing.

Maybe between happy reminiscences about the good old days of Ruby Ridge, Waco, and the Elian Gonzales raid, Ben-Veniste could ask Gorelick about those guidelines.

During that time, the Order shall take such steps as are necessary to bring all such seminaries into accord with the new guidelines promulgated by the Council of Ramos, so that by Lammastide next, in the second year of the reign of our Lord King Alroy, an officially sanctioned series of approved seminaries may be duly reconstituted and the training of priests resumed, to the greater glory of God.

Before he could provide care-of-the-cat guidelines, Luba Washington disappeared on a waft of roast goose.

Her colleagues were talking too fast and clipping the ends of their sentences off in a way that suggested they were barely managing to remain within the Federation guidelines for nondiscriminatory civil speech.

After months of frustrating delays, tensions erupted during one secure videoconference call between Baghdad and Langley when the deputy station chief in Baghdad started yelling at headquarters staffers, demanding that they provide the written guidelines for interrogations that the station had requested.

It was tricky work laying out the guidelines on the walls with the yardstick, first the horizontals, moving the stepladder across from left to right three feet at a hop, then the verticals, easy enough at the bottom but flirting more and more dangerously with wobbliness as she drew nearer to the top and was forced to go up on tiptoe.

But there are other issues involved that make these guidelines highly suspect, and these have to do with the incommensurability Christian asserts between religious and scientific theories.

As you know, Senator Thurmond and I worked for many years with the chairman, Biden, to pass the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, the law that abolished the federal parole and created a sentencing guideline system in the federal courts.

Once they were hired, employees had to observe dress guidelines, stipulating that they wear clean white shirts with sleeves neatly folded, a clean black necktie, clean patchless white pants, and a clean white apron free of stains.

The testimony of a telepath is, I believe, still not admissable in court except under fairly strict guidelines.

Tashvi bellowed, "And they coped with the emergency, and gave us specific guidelines to follow when the planet came back.

Washington censured him for this and reiterated the guidelines his former letter had laid down.

Criminals’ rights were curtailed and stricter sentencing guidelines put in place.