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directive
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Simple sentences
That would break the Prime Directive.
We were more than satisfied when the Romanian Government, even before its membership of the European Union, showed its readiness to accept this directive.
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You were in breach of your supervisory directive.
A presidential directive gave the FBI the responsibility of coordinating all counterespionage investigations.
You realize there's a government directive stating that there is no such thing as a flying saucer? Yes Sir.
My secretary had a directive to let nobody into the castle.
The second directive forbids any inmate to engage in any commercial enterprise.
I have a directive from the headquarters to prevent the rail construction through the Apache territory.
And I will execute that directive.
Didn't you see the directive that all personnel be clean-shaven?
A directive from Morok.
Captain, we've reached the designated position for scanning the coded directive tape. Good.
Captain, our prime directive of noninterference.
The good of the body is the prime directive.
The good of the body is the directive.
Then I put it to you that you have disobeyed the prime directive.
On your desk you will find a directive from the high command.
My built-in basic directive forbids me to permit bodily injury to a rational being.
Master, my basic directive.
To revise his basic directive, he must draw out the cable at the base of my articulating unit and connect himself.
The new basic directive is in full operation?
At your request, my basic directive has been revised.
Extensive internal repairs will be required but my original basic directive has been reinstated.
My basic directive.
You realize there's a government directive stating that there is no such thing as a flying saucer?
Glen, by the time you read this I shall have been eliminated for disobeying the directive of our computers.
I issued a directive last week in regard to a voluntary curfew for all astronauts.
Oh, could you get me a directive about Dutton?
Captain, we've reached the designated position for scanning the coded directive tape.
If we do what it seems we must, in my opinion, we'll be in direct violation of the Non-lnterference Directive.
His directive to seek out and destroy biological infestations could not have been programmed into it.
It took from the Other a new directive to replace its own.
Captain, our prime directive of non-interference.
The good of the Body is the prime directive.
The good of the Body is the directive.
Then I put it to you that you have disobeyed the prime directive. You are harmful to the Body.
That is the prime directive, and you are the evil.
Fulfill the prime directive.
News and current affairs
These attacks overlooked the fact that the directive makes employment conditions of workers from other EU-member states subject in most respects to host-country rules.
A revised version of the directive that reduces its sectoral scope and makes a number of compromises with the country-of-origin principle is now before the European Parliament.
Let us reflect anew on the consequences of this ancient directive: No one has the right to rob or dispossess in any way whatsoever any other person or the commonweal.
In 2006, the European Commission issued a directive on the liberalization of trade in services, but major countries - particularly Germany - have refused to implement it.
The Bolkestein directive on services played badly, but there is no question that European consumers pay too much for many services.
For example, a new directive requires non-household customers to be able to choose their electricity supplier by July 2004 and their gas supplier by July 2007.
But the directive ignores household customers, who in 2001 were able to choose their electricity supplier in only five EU States and their gas supplier in only three.
May 1, 2006, is a crucial date for Europe, for it is the deadline for implementing the European Union's directive on freedom of movement into national law.
While the directive's rules governing migration of employed and self-employed people hardly differ from previous EU law, the migration and social-welfare rights of non-working EU citizens have been significantly extended.
According to the directive, every EU citizen has the right to a residence permit for up to five years in any member state, followed by the right to permanent residence.
According to the directive's preamble, the state cannot cite insufficient assets as a reason to refuse a residence permit, as this would be inadmissible discrimination.
The incentives to make use of the new directive will be especially strong for East Europeans.
The directive on free movement implies a new era of direct migration into West European welfare states.
But, to do so, the directive on free movement must be changed, so that the right to immigrate does not automatically imply a right to social benefits.
For example, for the EU-wide statutory audit that was completed in April, the European Parliament agreed to a revised directive and new regulation that should have been directly applicable in all 28 member countries.
Individual farmers do not need any bureaucratic directive to decide whether to plant more potatoes: an increase in prices creates an incentive to plant more potatoes; a decrease in prices is a signal that they should plant less.
That's why I have proposed much tougher measures in the revised Capital Requirements Directive amendments now being considered by the European Parliament.
Since the new rules on controlling mergers will come in the form of a regulation, not a directive, they will take effect immediately, most likely before this summer, and will not need to be ratified by national parliaments.
Recent attempts to remedy this under the Capital Requirements Directive have been disappointing, even though it was plainly the best that could be achieved politically given EU countries' differing views on prudential supervision.