Directives
Orders and directives are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Orders" instead a noun "Directives".
Orders
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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This allows him to survive the EMP blast that shuts down the city, and also removes his original directives, no longer constraining him to OCP orders.
- It's an odd example of this trope: she generally obeys the Connors, but relatively early on she makes it clear that if orders given by the John Connor on the show conflict with directives from the future John Connor that sent her back in time, she obeys Future John's directives.
Source: Second Law My Ass - Whenever RoboCop in RoboCop: The Future of Law Enforcement gets orders from his precinct that conflict with his prime directives of upholding the law and protecting the innocent, he crushes the microphone in his hand and tells later that it broke just before the orders were given to him.
Source: Fake Static
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