I have to follow terrible court order

Usage examples of directive.

It took time for them to respond to the commands and directives of those abiding within them.

Switzerland utterly unlike anywhere else - looks incompatible with the acquis communautaire, the fourteen hundred or so regulations and directives, which membership of the European Union demands.

It was as if the King had made his decision and summoned Dor for this directive, rather than merely granting an audience.

These advisory and directive professions probably number two or three times as big a proportion of the whole population as the lawyers, educationists and doctors of the nineteenth century.

Less than a minute later, this directive was carried out and Foard was instructed to pick up the nearest telephone handset.

All these forms of recrystallization within the community, large and small, arose because of the inadaptability and want of vigour and cooperation in the formal governing, economically directive and educational systems.

Admiral John Poindexter, the calm, pipe-smoking national security adviser, explained now to the participants that earlier in the year, on January 17, 1986, the president had signed a formal top-secret intelligence directive.

Reichstag that he would respect the Locarno Pact and the territorial clauses of Versailles, General von Blomberg had issued his first directive to the three armed services to prepare plans for the reoccupation of the demilitarized Rhineland.

Diamond and his modest staff walked into the Center carrying orders and directives that gave the Mother Company total control over all operations touching, either directly or tangentially, the oil-producing nations.

Our defensive lines in Russia, properly shortened and reinforced under Directive Number 39, would have held toughly and bathed the Russian earth in Bolshevik blood.

No one objected to his directives, relieved to know what they were to do, and Webb suddenly found himself taking charge.

Strasbourg has been completely dissolved in accordance with the directive.

House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, Presidential Directive on the Use of Polygraphs and Prepublication Review, Hearings, 98th Cong.

House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, Presidential Directive on the Use of Polygraphs and Prepublication Review, 89th Cong.

Burma, I have recently requested the Generalissimo to continue reinforcing the Burma front and to permit Stilwell to make co-operative arrangements relative command according to the principles laid down in his original directive approved by the Combined Chiefs of Staff.