A verbal order from Locutus had been enough to trigger it.

You'll get nowhere in your military service if you can't give instructions and verbal orders.

The exchanges are also likely to ban "verbal orders," in which one broker is asked to make a trade for another.

This ceremony now proceeds simply on the verbal order of the proprietor.

Kirk repeated his verbal order to the computer; again it was ignored.

"I am not interested in verbal orders from anyone."

This policy was based entirely on verbal orders given to soldiers in the field.

The other change would ban "verbal orders," these sources said.

But until I've heard and acknowledged a verbal order, it has no force.

Of course I don't believe he signed anything, these were verbal orders.