instructed

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The prime minister added that he had instructed Israeli authorities to "deport the provocateurs as soon as possible".

From BBC • May 20, 2026

He strongly implies she was instructed to orchestrate her own arrest in order to create propaganda for the movement.

From Salon • May 20, 2026

When the ban was finally lifted in early 2020, allowing Drexel to depart China, the pastor instructed his daughter not to come back until he, too, was allowed to leave.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

He left the gathering and went to sleep, where a mysterious figure appeared to him in a dream and instructed him to sing about Creation.

From Science Daily • May 17, 2026

In a patient who gets only one antibiotic or inadequate doses of several, or who doesn’t take his medicine as instructed, the drug-susceptible bacilli may die off but the drug-resistant mutants will flourish.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French