The " don't ask " part of the DADT policy specified that superiors should not initiate investigation of a servicemember's orientation without witnessing disallowed behaviors, though credible evidence of homosexual behavior could be used to initiate an investigation.

Some soldiers regarded experience of warfare as more valuable than reading about it ; for example, Geoffroi de Charney, a 14th century knight who wrote about warfare, recommended that his audience should learn by observing and asking advice from their superiors.

His scandalized superiors ordered him out of Zealand and held him in the priory at Viborg under close confinement until he should come to his senses.

Because messages from superiors are considered to be more important than those from subordinates, the implicit rule is that communication channels, except for prescribed information flows, should not be cluttered by messages from subordinates but should remain open and free for messages moving down the chain of command.

The Oath against Modernism was issued by the Roman Catholic Pope, Saint Pius X, on September 1, 1910, and mandated that " all clergy, pastors, confessors, preachers, religious superiors, and professors in philosophical-theological seminaries " should swear to it.

Her father was an Anglican minister in London, with strong Puritan leanings, who felt strongly that the clergy should be well educated, and he clashed with his superiors on this issue.

These instructions, confirmed by Boisdeffre, seemed absurd to Picquart, since the bordereau established an indissoluble bond between the two cases ; he should have understood from that moment that his superiors had determined not to permit the reopening of the Dreyfus affair.

The Nuremberg trials established that persons cannot use the defense that they were only following the orders of their superiors, if that order violates international norms but especially that superiors that ordered, or " should have known ," of such violations yet failed to intervene are also criminally liable.

Fayol proposed that subordinate employees should be allowed to communicate directly with each other, given that their superiors had agreed upon this procedure.

Late in the year he personally recommended to his superiors that the Germans should withdraw from Stalingrad, receiving the support of Chief of Staff OKH — General Franz Halder — in this recommendation, but the idea of any withdrawal was rejected by Hitler.

In his first letter On the happy increase of the Society ( 25 July 1581 ), he treats of the necessary qualifications for superiors, and points out that government should be directed not by the maxims of human wisdom but by those of supernatural prudence.

Considering that offense is the best defense, Kolpakovsky suggested to his superiors in February 1865 that Russia should go beyond defending its border and move in force into Xinjiang's border area, seizing Chuguchak, Kuldja and Kashgar areas and colonizing the area with Russian settlers-all to better protect the Romanovs ' empire's other domains.

I think maybe his superiors and the Dallas police should handle what should happen to him.

In January 2012 a news story in SF Weekly by Peter Jamison stated that recently uncovered church documents included letters by Father Hardon in which he advised his Jesuit superiors that a fellow priest who admitted to taking showers with teenage boys should be allowed to remain in active ministry

Wherefore, as best we can, we ask and require you that you consider what we have said to you, and that you take the time that shall be necessary to understand and deliberate upon it, and that you acknowledge the Church as the Ruler and Superior of the whole world, and the high priest called Pope, and in his name the King and Queen Doña Juana our lords, in his place, as superiors and lords and kings of these islands and this Tierra-firme by virtue of the said donation, and that you consent and give place that these religious fathers should declare and preach to you the aforesaid.

His new expertise in tank warfare was strengthened by a close collaboration with George S. Patton, Sereno E. Brett, and other senior tank leaders ; their leading-edge ideas of speed-oriented offensive tank warfare were strongly discouraged by superiors who considered the new approach too radical and preferred the tank continue to be used in a strictly supportive role for the infantry.

He persuaded his superiors that codebreaking process could be mechanised, and he was assigned to develop a suitable machine in December 1942.

When Nick, with Paul's help, escapes with even more powerful codes than before, he is ruthlessly cast aside, not least because his superiors refuse to accept that the new codes must be disabled so soon after replacing the old ones.

He goes on to joke that far from being the perfect creation of a perfect designer, this universe may be " only the first rude essay of some infant deity ... the object of derision to his superiors ".

He then volunteered to fight in the Algerian War, using personal connections to be sent despite the reservations of his superiors.

The German Federal Act on the Public Service provides that any inferior has to consult and support any superiors, that he or she – only – has to follow “ general guidelines " of the superiors, and that he or she would have to be fully responsible for any own act in office, and would have to follow a specific, formal complaint procedure if in doubt of the legality of an order.

François agreed to commence the attack, but complained of a lack of artillery shells, telling his superiors that his troops would be obliged to charge with bayonets.

Note, however, that the young gentlemen might also be rated as seamen rather than midshipmen on the ship's books ; though they were still considered the social superiors of the seamen, petty officers ( excluding other young gentlemen ) and most warrant officers and could be given authority over them.

That same superior was then killed by Rukh, as a statement by Thrawn, that all Imperial troops, no matter their origin, were to be given the same effort and attention by their superiors.

Those who must be invited to a diocesan synod by law are any coadjutor or auxiliary bishops, the vicars general and episcopal, the officialis, the vicars forane plus an additional priest from each vicariate forane, the presbyterial council, canons of the cathedral chapter ( if there is one ), the rector of the seminary, some of the superiors of religious houses in the diocese, and members of the laity chosen by the diocesan pastoral council, though the diocesan bishop can invite others to attend at his own initiative.

Religious superiors met their bishops ' pressure with the response that the austere and cloistered ideal was no longer acceptable to more than a tiny minority of regular clergy, and that any attempt on their part to enforce their order's stricter rules could be overturned in counter-actions in the secular courts, were aggrieved monks and nuns to obtain a writ of praemunire.

Beauregard considered his contributions in dangerous reconnaissance missions and devising strategy for his superiors to be more significant than those of his engineer colleague, Captain Robert E. Lee, so he was disappointed when Lee and other officers received more brevets than he did.

To facilitate this Harlan's superiors in Eternity allow him to pursue his study of " prehistory ", which is history prior to the Eternity's creation that, because Eternity had not yet been created then, cannot be traveled to nor changed.

This intellectual pursuit is largely frowned upon by the Eternals, especially Harlan's superiors, but it becomes apparent his expert knowledge on the subject will be vital to Eternity's creation.

The first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada, John Graves Simcoe, advocated grammar schools for the colony to save the wealthy from sending their sons to the United States to be educated, but was unable to convince his superiors in London.

The first Tintin book, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, was crafted on the orders of Hergé's superiors, to be anti-Soviet propaganda of limited outlook.

The importance of filial piety can be expressed in this quote from " The Analects of Confucius ", " Yu Tzu said, ‘ It is rare for a man whose character is such that he is good as a son and obedient as a young man to have the inclination to transgress against his superiors ; it is unheard of for one who has no such inclination to be inclined to start a rebellion.

Grissom found this to be highly amusing, saying later, " After the flight our superiors at NASA let us know in no uncertain terms that non-man-rated corned beef sandwiches were out for future space missions.

Utilising the Blue Books, Cranborne criticised officials for " walking in a dream … in superb unconsciousness, believing that what had been must be, and that as long as they did nothing absolutely wrong, and they did not displease their immediate superiors, they had fulfilled all the duties of their station ".

The principle required absolute obedience of all subordinates to their superiors ; thus Hitler viewed the government structure as a pyramid, with himself — the infallible leader — at the apex.

Barzun states that, contrary to myth, Rousseau was no primitivist ; for him: The model man is the independent farmer, free of superiors and self-governing.

Reportedly, Siebold was not the easiest man to deal with ; he was in continuous conflict with his Dutch superiors, who felt he was arrogant.

* Chapter 7 divides humility into twelve degrees, or steps in the ladder that leads to heaven :( 1 ) Fear God ; ( 2 ) Substitute one's will to the will of God ; ( 3 ) Be obedient to one's superior ; ( 4 ) Be patient amid hardships ; ( 5 ) Confess one's sins ; ( 6 ) Accept oneself as a " worthless workman "; ( 7 ) Consider oneself " inferior to all "; ( 8 ) Follow examples set by superiors ; ( 9 ) Do not speak until spoken to ; ( 10 ) Do not laugh ; ( 11 ) Speak simply and modestly ; and ( 12 ) Be humble in bodily posture.

With the promotion came greater recognition ; he received good evaluations from his superiors and had few problems with other crewmen.

A commander named Hu ordered his men to attack peasants, in an attempt to increase the number of " bandits " he had killed ; his superiors, likely eager to inflate their records as well, allowed this.

By definition, the selection of poorer houses for dissolution in the First Act minimised the potential release of funds to other purposes ; and once pensions had been committed to former superiors, cash rewards paid to those wishing to leave, and appropriate funding allocated for refounded houses receiving transferred monks and nuns, it is unlikely that there was much if any profit at this stage.

Two journeys to Rome on business of the Order afforded him the opportunity of traveling over most of Italy ; and after his final return he saw much of France, while acting as secretary to various provincial superiors of his Order.

Within department or ministry, firstly, behavior is bound by rules and regulations ; secondly, civil servants are subordinates in a hierarchy and accountable to superiors.

Admiral von Spee ’ s admiralty superiors left him complete freedom of action ; " with remarkable wisdom and forbearance they realized in Berlin that any orders would tie his hands in a predicament only he fully understood.

We learn in them how Caliban ( democracy ), the mindless brute, educated to his own responsibility, makes after all an adequate ruler ; how Prospero ( the aristocratic principle, or, if we will, the mind ) accepts his dethronement for the sake of greater liberty in the intellectual world, since Caliban proves an effective policeman and leaves his superiors a free hand in the laboratory ; how Ariel ( the religious principle ) acquires a firmer hold on life and no longer gives up the ghost at the faintest hint of change.

This Philip had ( 1328 ) petitioned John XXII for permission for himself and other Franciscans to observe literally the Rule of St. Francis, independently of the superiors of the order ; the pope had refused.