guidelines

All trade must be conducted in accordance with binding state plans and guidelines issued by the minister of foreign trade.

Guidelines of this kind are never static; they will change to some extent as time and knowledge advance.

Only when it was well along was the project passed to the White House for review of the committee's makeup and guidelines.

The basic adherence to Soviet guidelines has remained intact throughout the years of communist rule.

Agitprop, in turn, is responsible for the transmission of guidelines down to the lowest levels of party organization.