Citations:prime directive

Noun: "overriding control"

 * 1902: University of Michigan Law School, Michigan Law Review p. 1949:
 * We are, after all, discussing the prime directive of academic life and a vitally important rule of civilized life in general: Seek and disseminate the truth.
 * 1946: University of Iowa/University of Chicago, The Journal of General Education, p. 160:
 * Such probes would not invalidate the prime directive that a work of art must stand upon its intrinisic artistic merits
 * 1955: René Albrecht-Carrié, Europe After 1815, p. 32:
 * The prime directive of Austrian policy was the preservation of this state of affairs.
 * The prime directive of Austrian policy was the preservation of this state of affairs.