Word: instructive
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...approaching people to instruct, we've established that it's important to have role plays or demonstrations, video presentations, etc," Williams said. "We have a particular video we will show on how officer should not do a vehicle stop...
...they agree on nothing else, Big Government liberals and conservative devolutionists view national security and the preservation of domestic order as Washington's two primary roles. There is also a third and equally important federal function on which any public figure can help instruct Americans: the role of civil discourse in a democracy...
...cliches, use your own mind and think of something original," my slender 45-year old bachelorette eighth grade English teacher would always instruct me, the 13-year old budding novelist...
...next time you go to your favorite restaurant, quietly instruct the waitress that your girlfriend observes special dietary restrictions: the olives that accompany her martini must be steeped in oil. This way, when she furtively tries to insert them into her nostrils, their well-greased skins will slip right back out. She will soon surrender, and will likely order whiskey sours from then...
What's left is still shocking. For in the film's first half, set in the 1970s, we see Lavin and his colleagues misuse their authority as teachers, surrogate parents, men of God. They instruct these utterly dependent children in their catechism. They impose discipline with a belt buckle, their faces hinting at the pleasure they take in their power. At night they show their tender side, with sweet murmurs and a hand under a boy's bed sheets...