The phrases describe officially what had been the ad hoc decisions by individual postal officials.

We need to abandon the current practice of allowing the Council to take ad hoc decisions without consulting the parties involved.

This article explains in more detail why establishing effective strategies for change is so important rather than leaving everything to ad hoc decision making.

Rural development cannot be implemented through sudden ad hoc decisions, but must be based on a long-term plan.

All he offers is ad hoc decisions he makes as he goes along."

A series of ad hoc decisions and strategy changes followed as the insurgency grew and security deteriorated.

Polish civil servants responsible for the protocol often need to make ad hoc decisions based on tradition, general rules of etiquette and common sense.

In this setting, when periodic, or ad hoc decisions are made, analysis of historical transaction data sets is performed .

In 1991, he said during a panel discussion that most "grand strategies" were after-the-fact rationales developed to explain successful ad hoc decisions.

But the Rabbis taught that the blasphemer's incarceration was an ad hoc decision (from which one cannot generalize).

The second is to "muddle through elegantly," decentralizing rationing with "ad hoc decisions in the trenches."

You will therefore have the opportunity to practise what you preach by taking an ad hoc decision in the Bureau, the majority of whose members are men.

You should discuss these issues with your colleagues when reviewing E.R. policy, rather than leave them to the ad hoc decision of an individual doctor under pressure.

While launching the People's Plan Campaign, the then government had taken an ad hoc decision to devolve 30 per cent funds to the civic bodies.

This paragraph provides that disqualification from the holding of local elective office should only be based on objective legal criteria and not on ad hoc decisions.

"These are ad hoc decisions," said Martin D. Arrick, a bond analyst for Standard & Poor's who follows the nonprofit hospital industry.

He also said he favored a system that would mandate more early planning and less "ad hoc decision making" and "ad hoc zoning for sale."

On the other hand active investors pointed out that during Karunratne's tenure the market performance got from bad to worst due to ad hoc decision making and excessive regulations.

Charles de Gaulle leaned to leave the post-war purification to ad hoc decisions of the judges, relying solely on the 1939 statute that punished treason with death.

"This was not an ad hoc decision by the Prince of Wales, or by the Duke of Edinburgh," Mr. Arbiter said.

The count was so slow that election officials tonight announced an ad hoc decision that some but not all verification procedures would be waived to speed up the tally announcements.

"More often than not, they are rationales developed after the fact to explain a series of relatively ad hoc decisions that turn out reasonably well," he said during a panel discussion in 1991.

On national security matters, ad hoc decisions could be dangerous, and his involvement would open the President up to attack for turning to an amoral pollster on matters of war and peace.

MacLeod (1982) suggests that there may not have been "an official language policy for each and every aspect of life" but that "individual Roman officials [made] common sense ad hoc decisions".

My question relates to the ad hoc decision by the Prime Minister concerning bilateral sanctions taken without consulting the foreign secretaries of the governments and parliaments of the states of Europe.