In the years after that she had opened its drawers only once and then on express instructions from Dorothy, who lay on her deathbed.

'Nothing is done there except at the express instruction of the emperor.'

(FWIW, my wife has told me many of her passwords, but I would never use them without her express instructions).

Work on the canal site resumed in 1984 after a 31-year break, at the express instructions of Ceaucescu.

For this reason Tasers come with express instructions not to use them where flammable liquids or fumes may be present, such as filling stations and methamphetamine labs.

The ambulance was travelling slowly on his express instructions.

Not a man moved from his post without express instructions to do so.

Torture was forbidden, except by the express instruction of the monarch or a body such as the Privy Council or the Star Chamber.

He wanted me because of my abilities, but he didn't want those abilities exercised except at his express instructions.

But even he first had to deliver, at the express instructions of the Bush camp, 10 minutes of standard and, for him, uncharacteristically harsh and simple-minded Democrat-bashing.