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directive
1. ' He gave himself the directive a second time
2. It was a directive from the Pope before we left
3. My prime directive is to pass myself off as a native and the natives are just not that antisocial
4. "Be empty of yourself!" Bodhidharma's directive had been a tough one for the Emperor to
5. Certainly, they could recreate life; except that would go against the most fundamental teachings of the Temporal Directive
6. The Temporal Directive, however, had a loophole (at least in the most recent interpretation)
7. ‘Surely I don’t need to quote you the Temporal Directive
8. ‘Of course, it’s nothing the B’tari have done,’ said Roidon, ‘because you have the Temporal Directive to ensure the universe does not become disrupted, whereas humans have no sense of their action’s consequence
9. ‘If we ignored the Temporal Directive we would not be employing humans
10. or more pertinently: The Temporal Directive
11. Nor would I have the approval of the council: The Temporal Directive is highly restrictive regarding the development and use of wormhole technology
12. ‘Nevertheless, what you are doing is exploiting a loophole in the Directive
13. Unless it viewed a human order to be in direct conflict with its primary directive of protecting the ship and its human cargo from any threat, it could not actually refuse an order from the command crew
14. Roidon Chanley, though, did share a common view that their B’tari overseers were too reluctant to take the necessary action, hamstrung as they were by the increasingly irrelevant doctrine of the Temporal Directive
15. ‘What is directive 5?’
16. Perhaps there was some shared philosophy with the B’taris’ Temporal directive
17. ‘There is, however, an alternative that will not break the rules of the temporal Directive
18. ‘This time I will be true to the temporal directive
19. ‘Bound by the temporal directive
20. Even the position of the compound was marked; he wondered if it could have simply been programmed in to navigate automatically, but perhaps that contravened some rule of the Temporal Directive
21. He was sure, though, that if he ever found a physical copy of the Temporal Directive he would rip it to pieces
22. circumventing Paul’s directive to honor elders
23. They took as their doctrine a strict set of rules and guidelines know as the Temporal Directive, devising rules for minimal intervention and interference, which then had to be adapted for each assignment
24. Unfortunately since the Temporal Directive forbids any CC federation fleet from observing from within their solar system, the details of how this led to a full scale nuclear war remain unclear
25. The Council held extensive meetings, reviewing and debating the tenets of the Temporal Directive until what seemed to be a loophole allowed the possibility of action
26. If he was being kind on himself he could always blame his failure on the constraints of the Temporal Directive
27. Even in this dark hour he gave a chuckle thinking of the way this temporal intervention had to be done without violating the directive and how, as a result, even greater damage could potentially be done to this time-line
28. Now, the Temporal Directive had been violated
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30. And due to the strictures of the Temporal Directive it had to be a true outsider, removed from a different Earth
31. The directive described the significance of – what humans would term – the butterfly effect: how a small action can eventually have massive consequences that not even the wisest elder could anticipate
32. He said after a while, ‘entering TIAR and communicating with its controller would surely have been a fascinating experience, however the Temporal Directive prevents such action
33. He would have to study the Temporal Directive for answers
34. The policy of minimal intervention had originally set the foundation for the Temporal Directive, and remained enshrined in their doctrine for millennia; the change in philosophy only as a result of the invasion of Earth by their established foe, the Darangi
35. The failure of their mission was cited by historian and Temporal Directive scholar Paradic Ramazo as the catalyst for Central Council's change in policy
36. The chosen operative, of course, complied with the rules of the Temporal Directive: he was not from the time of Earth's crisis, and his role did not allow him to effect a [noticeable] change in the predicted time-line; his apparent mission was merely to assist a captive (Gerrid Lytum, former employee of the Darangi via the Nine committee) who had been subjugated within an artificial reality of his own creation by an oppressive Artificial Intelligence
37. As Paradic Ramazo pointed out: If the CC had decided sooner on high level intervention (such as before the war), the breech in the Temporal Directive may not have needed to have been so extensive, with the possibility of success greatly improved
38. The Temporal Directive had become a naive ideal belonging to a time when the known worlds were isolated or at least autonomous, a time when the troubles of a world could be observed
39. The great thinker of the third age, Almani Zolandric, who has been credited as the primary contributor to the Temporal Directive, had not envisioned such extraordinary events brought about by the corrupting influence of technology
40. With the Temporal Directive once adhered to more rigorously than the Bible to a priest, the question of even speaking to a human – much less risking any influence or interference – would have been beyond the pale
41. Zolla's trepidation made him want to consult the Temporal Directive, as if there would be some words of reassurance, gems of wisdom concealed in this great tome of moral guidance and philosophy
42. Terminating the lives of these millions of beings was surely against Directive doctrine regardless of circumstance
43. Using a future-sent technology that would once have been deemed illegal by the Temporal Directive, Zolla was able to scan each ship’s computer systems, one of which contained a database for an experimental nullifying agent; a program had been running to find an adequate formula – a suitable molecular structure
44. It occasions remorse when an individual behaves contrary to his or her moral or ethical directive
45. Conservatives have established a base of operations that will hopefully advance and preserve their social and moral directive
46. However, he would he stop the attack on directive or break it off which is incredible training if you think about it
47. Did you know I issued that directive in September of ’58? I mean, we were doing that for more than fifty years!”
48. It was right there, in the manual, the Port Authority Lieutenant said, turning the book around so Gordon could see the directive
49. Now we come to the story of Abram, who linguistically metamorphoses to Abraham sometime after he follows his God’s directive to “go out” from the land of his birth to a “land that I will show you
50. "” That directive was not fully implemented but we are now looking
