guidelines

['gaɪdˌlaɪnz]

Definition:
1. Official advice about how to do it.
2. Used to help you plan your actions or to form an opinion about something.

Use 'guidelines' in a sentence:

1. National guidelines recommend we do 140 minutes of moderate-intensity activity a week.
2. Not all companies lay down written guidelines and rules.
3. But federal judges often rely heavily on the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines when they determine penalties, and in the case of animal fighting, those guidelines are outdated and extremely inadequate.
4. Under "trashrecycling collectors" in the institute's Holiday Tipping Guidelines, it says: "$10 to $30 each."
5. Certain guidelines can be given. First, have a heating engineer check the safety of the system.
6. The U.S. Sentencing Commission, which creates these sentencing guidelines, is revisiting them, proposing to raise the minimum sentence from 6-12 to 21-27 months.
7. If you want to take part in the contest, it is a good idea to remember these guidelines: first, make sure your stomach is nearly empty of food.
8. In my guidelines for saving the environment, I suggest modest changes, like eating vegetarian meals two days a week.
9. Remember that these are only guidelines: I don't have a crystal ball.
10. What do we learn from the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee's scientific report?
11. All of these points and more showed up in the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee's scientific report, released last February.
12. PepsiCo's plan for its foods and drinks is based on guidelines from the World Health Organisation, which last week backed using taxes on sparkling drinks to reduce sugar consumption.
13. You can read the new rules in the section of the Guidelines called Building Promotions with Minecraft.
14. Why does the author say the USDA could have contributed a lot to lowering the climate cost through its dietary guidelines?
15. The guidelines drive billions of dollars of food production through federal programs like school lunches and nutrition assistance for the needy.
16. In the case of animal fighting, Sentencing Guidelines are outdated and extremely inadequate.
17. He is the co-chairman of the Guidelines Committee.
18. The line about keeping the guidelines' scope to nutrition and diet doesn't ring quite right with researchers.
19. A school district should have guidelines for selecting and conducting field trips.
20. He also urged the Federal Trade Commission to set guidelines for social-networking sites.
21. They said the bank has strict guidelines and requirements as to who they can lend money to.
22. The government has drawn up guidelines on the treatment of the mentally ill.
23. Teachers from all over the nation contributed to a national curriculum that provided guidelines, not prescriptions, for them to refer to.
24. Space Policy Directive-3 lays out general guidelines for the United States to mitigate ( the effects of space debris and track and manage traffic in space.
25. We want to give people a reasonable amount of freedom but the guidelines are around 3,000 words.
26. Medical society guidelines are also used by insurance companies to help determine reimbursement policies.
27. Read the manufacturer's guidelines before discarding the box.
28. If, for example, building codes included green construction guidelines, most developers would be too lazy to challenge them.
29. This is a step in the right direction, but we'd like to see the U.S. Sentencing Commission make further changes to the guidelines.
30. The program guidelines and other related information are available at the website.
31. In Ireland, Guidelines on Countering Bullying Behaviour in Post-Primary Schools was published in 1993.
32. Sentencing Commission make further changes to the guidelines.
33. We should act on the guidelines of our country.
34. There are no hard and fast rules, but rather traditional guidelines as to who pays for what.
35. BluePrints description of a distributed component of the system design and best practice guidelines. BluePrints.
36. Traditionally, guidelines have heavily influenced the practice of medicine, and the latest ones are expected to make doctors more conscious of the economic consequences of their decisions, even though there's no obligation to follow them.
37. Ellis evidently wished to negotiate downwards after Atkinson had set the guidelines.
38. We've surveyed business communication consultants and etiquette experts to come up with the following guidelines for effectively using the alternative ways of delivering difficult messages.
39. Its agencies in charge of drafting the guidelines have the expertise.
40. Notwithstanding the previous guidelines, purchase at least one spare hard disk for each model hard disk you deploy.
41. Although the American Academy of Pediatrics offers guidelines recommending that parents model appropriate social media use for their children, it does not explicitly discuss oversharing by parents.
42. Evidence suggests that a key step is to develop a policy on bullying, saying clearly what is meant by bullying, and giving explicit guidelines.
43. Subsequently, new guidelines were issued to all employees.
44. What may account for the neglect of sustainability in the USDA's Dietary Guidelines according to the author?
45. The officer involved was relieved of his duties because he had violated strict guidelines.
46. The effects of the sun can be significantly reduced if we follow certain guidelines.
47. These guidelines do not have the force of law.
48. We laid out the economic guidelines and followed it.
49. The government should issue clear guidelines on the content of religious education.