The phrase
"marching orders" means instructions or commands given to someone telling them what to do or how to proceed.
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Faso is also beginning to face strong opposition from a growing Democratic field of candidates who won't take
marching orders from Paul Ryan, or risk destabilizing 20 percent of the nation's economy to score a hollow political «win» for Mr. Trump.
Escape from East New York: Mayor gets
marching orders for maneuvering housing plan through Brooklyn
There's holding hands when we sing, but not much locking arms as we
get marching orders for the mission.
Mr. Adams said his office had
received marching orders from Governor Andrew Cuomo to provide $ 785 million in grants by asking regional Economic Development Corporations for advice on the most crucial projects in their areas, instead of having the state dictate where the money would go.
«Three Men in a Room» continued to cut the deals, leaving rank - and - file lawmakers consigned to taking
marching orders after the fact.
Unlike other lead calculators, it shows real estate professionals how far they are from their income goals and then gives
marching orders on how many leads they need to generate, by type, to reach those goals.
This tough set
of marching orders ignores the fact that the two divorced parents march across terrain now made rugged by diminished finances, unresolved anger and bitter remorse.
So the impression we definitely got was that they received
marching orders at some level of government that it was time to close the door.»
Instead of listening to innovators and entrepreneurs across the country, the Senate
followed marching orders from big biotech, pharmaceutical, and trial lawyer lobbyists.
Every five years, the Finance Department and the Bank of Canada agree on
new marching orders on how to go about controlling inflation.
He won't do emails — insisting, instead, on working with a fountain pen as he goes through his red box each morning
issuing marching orders to civil servants by writing on their papers.
Chairperson, Eminent Clergy, ladies and gentlemen, the New Patriotic Party and I won, by the Grace of God, last year's elections with
clear marching orders from the Ghanaian people.
Miller PhotographyA contingent of UFT members files into the convention center to get
marching orders before heading off to meet with Albany lawmakers.
Newly sworn - in FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb has issued some of his
first marching orders to the agency: a reorganization of the FDA's inspection staff, which is tasked with making sure manufacturing facilities hew to regulatory standards and investigating customer complaints.
The Commerce Department
revised March orders for non-defense capital goods excluding aircraft, which are seen as a measure of business spending plans, to show them falling 0.4 percent instead of dipping 0.1 percent as reported last month.
Premiers and prime ministers need to make climate action a priority, decide in broad strokes how to go about it, and then give their
ministers marching orders to get it done.
Baptist Calvinists use the NIV, or did until the ESV came out and the new
marching orders came down from all the big name Calvinist pastors, so they burned their NIV and switched to a ESV like a good little slave.
It will be interesting, therefore, to see how Todd Stiefel will inject the
requisite marching orders into the atheism movement necessary to organize itself in likewise fashion to Christianity.
THings that took place 4000 - 5000 years ago that make up the old testament are not part of our
current marching orders.
But make this one first and then report back here for duty and I'll give you your
next marching orders!
Guess Per felt he can speak his mind without fear of retributions, since he was given the captains role, which in AFC terms means
guaranteed marching orders.
There was still more time for Kane to hit the headlines, however, as goalkeeper Hugo Lloris had a rush of blood to the head at 5 - 0 and came charging out of his goal, taking out an Asteras striker and receiving his
inevitable marching orders, meaning he will be suspended for the return leg in Greece.
At the 1976 Conservative conference, Michael Heseltine fired a volley of attacks on Labour, calling it «a rabble of political extremists» and «a one - legged army limping away», mimicking their
imagined marching orders: «Left!
Citing marching orders from Cuomo, the head of SUNY Poly, Dr. Alain Kaloyeros, and the Mayor of the city of Rensselaer, Dan Dwyer, walked the plot that would have been a spot for a casino and talked about a new partnership today.
And if the atrophy is a consequence of the trauma or the post-trauma period, scientists have their
usual marching orders: figure out how the process works so we can learn how to prevent it.
So what can you do to further civilization in a model where growth isn't the reigning
economic marching order, as it were?
And if you've sold the population a false historical narrative, say «the German people need room in which to live», then it's relatively easy to
couple marching orders to the delusion.
And not because of studio
PR marching orders, or even because the film's plot twists are especially precious.
Like obedient soldiers, site educators take their
RTI marching orders and begin to complete the items on their RTI to - do list, such as administering a universal screening assessment, regrouping students in tiered groups, or creating a tutorial period.
Are you one of those owners or bosses who gives
daily marching orders to a manager and then shuts yourself off from the very life blood that drives your retail enterprise?
That would send important priority and
marching orders across agencies, and allow an orderly evolution, not a destructive scramble.
Most of the small ones did so the minute they received
verbal marching orders from Shanghai's Municipal Finance Service Office.
Also: The iPad is on life support Microsoft gives Windows device makers their 2017
marching orders Tablets: Why businesses are falling in love with them, just as consumers are getting bored
Job seekers would expect a simple answer — post it anywhere and everywhere — but you'll get
different marching orders on even that first step in the job search, depending on your particular circumstances.
TOUGH MARCHING ORDERS — Divorced parenting means facing the grim reality of diminished finances, unresolved anger and bitter remorse.
Other benefits offered to the developers was «a streamlined approval process» (gov» t own words), Municipal Act curtailment, a joke of an ERT process and various provincial ministries
given marching orders to work for developers, not the citizenry.
was not merely a birth announcement but a set
of marching orders to which Jesus was obedient throughout his life.
Does this mean the mayor (and governor) think mayoral control is key, or are they merely attempting to
following marching orders from Washington D.C.?