Example sentences for: directive

How can you use “directive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • With this directive still awaiting President Bush's signature, Secretary Rumsfeld did not order his subordinates to begin preparing any new military plans against either al Qaeda or the Taliban before 9/11.

  • On CAPPS, also known as CAPS (Computer Assisted Profiling System), see FAA security directive, "Threat to Air Carriers," SD 97-01, Oct. 27, 1997.

  • Certainly, the FDNY was not "responsible for the management of the City's response to the emergency," as the Mayor's directive would have required.

  • Clients with high trait anger, who were therefore likely to resist directive interventions, were more successful with a motivational enhancement intervention.

  • Directed in plain style by Jonathan Frakes (who also appears as the Enterprise's second-in-command, Riker), this is probably the closest the movies have come to a TV episode--one of the ones in which the Enterprise crew beams down to an idyllic agrarian planet where people knead dough and dress like Stevie Nicks and where the Captain falls in love with a headstrong woman and has impassioned debates about the Prime Directive before the phasers and the photon torpedos come out and things blow up real good.


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