1.   As it is publicly owned, this sector is subject to direct government influence and, frequently, political direction.

2.   Constitutional arrangements have been developed to ensure that bureaucracies remain responsive to political direction.

3.   The holding company form has been used to provide a buffer between the state enterprises themselves and political direction by the state.

4.   Attorney General Scott Harshbarger is perhaps the only Demcoratic gubernatorial candidate whose political direction did not depend on whether Kennedy was in or out.

5.   All along, by all accounts, they have been free of political direction or interference from other parts of the government.

6.   All of that could change in a year, with a different political direction.

7.   Reagan changed the political direction of this country but also oversaw the Iran-Contra scandal.

8.   Rospigliosi said the rebel columns lack political direction.

9.   The footnote states that the force would have a unified NATO chain of command under the political direction of the NATO countries.