policy directive
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpolicyanddirective
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policy
noun[C]
uk/ˈpɒl.ə.si/us/ˈpɑː.lə.si/
a set of ideas or a plan of what to do in particular situations that has been agreed to officially by a group of people, a business organization, a government, or a ...
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directive
noun[C]
uk/daɪˈrek.tɪv/us/daɪˈrek.tɪv/
an ...
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(Definition ofpolicyanddirectivefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I certainly would not have gone ahead without somepolicydirectiveon these questions of taxation, and so on.
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They have to have it because thepolicydirectivedemands that they should defend areas without the forces necessary to defend them.
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He said that thepolicydirectiveissued prevented it from operating a service.
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There has never been a top over-allpolicydirectiveas to what is required by this country and whence it is to be obtained.
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Is it simply because of administration or is there apolicydirectivebehind the change?
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Because the gas and electricity councils have nopolicydirectiveit is necessary for our social workers to spend time negotiating afresh with them on behalf of every new applicant.
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This issue of active user involvement, so central to current policy directives, is notable by its absence in much of the research reviewed.
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She argues that educators, in the absence of clearcut policy directives, are often left to their own devices in approaching bilingual education.
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While the metropole and central government could issue bold policy directives, it was the personnel working at the provincial and especially the district level who had to implement them.
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Competition between an excessive number of private operators has manifested itself in speeding, overloading of vehicles, and reluctance to comply with public policy directives on concessionary tariffs.
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Nabababu disobeyed such apolicydirective.
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Yet it highlights the inherent tension in policy directives, which also call for increased consumer choice, which arguably should include carer as well as patient choice.
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I can confirm that we are already in discussion with the distributors about those policy directives.
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I have already given an undertaking that policy directives are in preparation.
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Let us have some policy directives so that people in local government and outside it who must deal with derelict land know exactly what will happen.
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It is managed through public policy directives.
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Many of the events that occurred during that period were spontaneous and local rather than being the result of coordinated policy directives from a central government.
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Many of the events that occurred during the period were spontaneous and local rather than being the result of coordinated policy directives from a central government.
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