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He sends different diplomats into negotiations with contradictory instructions.
Al-Issawi’s removal may have been tied to reports that he issued the instructions for the arrest of Younis shortly before the assassination.
Unlike economists, biologists, for example, know that every cell functions according to instructions for protein synthesis encoded in its DNA.
Yet leaders left New York committed to clear and firm instructions for their negotiators: seal a deal in Copenhagen.
The Despot and the DiplomatDENVER – Back in 2005, when I was the United States’ lead negotiator at the six-party talks on North Korea’s nuclear program, I looked at the instructions I received for my first meeting, a Chinese-hosted banquet that included a North Korean delegation.
Donald Trump has obviously modified those instructions.
As US ambassador to Iraq, the instructions I received from Washington rarely came with any commensurate sense of responsibility for the outcome.
In the recent doormat drama, she also used Twitter to issue instructions to her own diplomats, tweeting at the Indian High Commission in Canada to deal with the “unacceptable” matter, by taking it up with Amazon “at the highest level.”
Like an airplane piloted in confusion, the European economy has not behaved according to the instructions.
Moreover, many state employees (around 5.1 million of them eligible to vote) and their families supported Shafiq, owing either to direct instructions from their bosses, or to the perceived threat of creeping MB influence on government bureaucracies.
What matters are the instructions sent to China’s UN ambassador from Beijing.
We now have the set of instructions that specifies human development--how each of us progressed from a single cell (a fertilized egg) to an adult human comprising a hundred trillion cells of thousands of different types.
Then, all banks should be given a tight schedule to raise capital privately, in accordance with the single supervisor’s instructions, to levels that create a sufficient buffer to ensure their viability; banks that fail to meet this schedule should be resolved.
The Treasury’s study was undertaken under instructions from President Donald Trump, who was responding to pressure from several Republican congressional leaders – such as Representative Jeb Hensarling of Texas, the chair of the House Financial Services Committee – who advocate replacing regulators with courts.
When I represented George W. Bush’s administration in the six-party talks in 2005, I had written instructions not to participate in any dinners or other social engagements with the North Koreans, nor even to raise a glass in any toast that included North Korean representatives.
Meanwhile, other ministers circumvent government instructions to get from Brussels what has been refused in Paris.
Border guards, receiving no instructions and not knowing what else to do, opened them up.
Mohamed Atta, the chief hijacker on 9/11, left instructions for his burial, demanding that no woman approach his body and that the men washing him touch his genitals only with gloves.
Will the resentful workers who must follow a computer’s instructions – say, in assembling an order in Amazon’s fulfillment centers – vote to tax the programmers who put them there until the software creators lose the incentive to innovate, leaving society poorer?
After the invention of coins, it became easy to sell books, lessons, and instructions.
By the late 1950s there were roughly 2000 computers in the world and their processing power averaged 10,000 machine instructions per second.
There are now 300 million computers in the world, with processing power averaging several hundred million instructions per second--a four_billion_fold increase in raw automated computational power, an average annual growth rate of 56%!
There are Christians who know all about the fire and brimstone of the Book of Revelation, but seem not to have heard the instructions about generosity in the Sermon on the Mount.
Detailed packing instructions were issued, informing us that we could not bring radios, mobile phones, wireless devices, printed materials, photos, cassette tapes, or DVDs.
If they were not following precise orders, they were at least responding to vague pro forma instructions from the top: don't do anything illegal, just maximize profits.
Indeed, on May 7, a female teacher in the QAU history department was physically assaulted in her office by a bearded, Taliban-looking man who screamed that he had instructions from Allah.
In 2001, the committee's Web site carried instructions on how to vandalize "immoral" billboards by splashing paint on them.
The medical profession doled out advice about how one should eat in the same breath as instructions about how one should live – and about what sort of person one should be.
The US Congress will not accept European interference, the ECB will not take instructions from America's Treasury, and Alan Greenspan wants his hands free to run the US economy.
The godman impressed Thatcher enough with his mind-reading skills that she visited him again – wearing, on his instructions, a red dress and sporting a religious talisman he had given her.
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