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Example sentences for: directs

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The executive order directs the Department of Health and Human Services to survey smokers aged 12 through 17, salvaging a provision that was originally in the failed tobacco bill.
John Turturro directs, co-writes, and stars in a story set in turn-of-the-century New York about an acting troupe whose onstage and offstage lives intertwine.
David Mamet directs a G-rated family drama, based on Terrence Rattigan's 1946 play about a schoolboy accused of petty theft and the legal battle that blossoms in the accusation's wake.
But Brit Stephen Frears directs in a distanced and self-consciously classical style.
The Jones dismissal directs the scandal's focus away from sex and toward allegations of a cover-up, many pundits note.