Sentence examples for Transgress limits from inspiring English sources

Verse 190 of the second chapter of the Koran reads: "Fight in the path of God those who fight you, but do not transgress limits.

In another Quranic passage (2 190), Muslims are told, "fight in the case of God those who start fighting you, but do not transgress limits (or start the attack); for God loveth not transgressors".

In Surah 2 190, Muslims are instructed to "Fight in the cause of Allah those who fight you," but they conveniently ignore the second part of the verse that says, "But do not transgress limits; For Allah loveth not transgressors".

But if you look closer, it also goes on to say, in Chapter 3, Verse 172: "Of those who answered the call of Allah and the messenger, even after being wounded, those who do right and refrain from wrong have a great reward" and "Fight in the cause of Allah those who fight you, but do not transgress limits; for Allah loves not transgressors" (Chapter 2, Verse 190).

Kierkegaard agreed with Augustine that human beings are fundamentally proud, always wanting to overreach themselves, transgress any limits imposed on them, and deny their dependence on God.

Later, after he had left the White House, Johnson spoke of "secret treaties," formal documents committing the Soviet Union and China to go to the aid of North Vietnam should the United States transgress defined limits.

Unlike Mr. Milosevic, Mr. Robertson said, defendants in murder cases would not be allowed to make speeches or transgress time limits, and once a suspect had chosen to be his own lawyer, he would not have the benefit of an additional team of legal experts at public expense.

And yet for Leibowitz, even this would transgress the limits to which the notion of radical transcendence binds us.

The chapters of this book reflect a common effort to transgress the limits of the medical by drawing on a fundamental concern with the logic of social and cultural practice.

Psychoanalysis is presented as a counter-depressant, as are art and writing, able not only to keep the drives or semiotic forces moving through language but also to foster their revolutionary potential to transgress symbolic limits and laws and to creatively rework self and society.

Or, if it be alleged that these may transgress the limits of possible life and propagation, we might, at least, have nations of human beings without nails upon their fingers, with more or fewer fingers and toes than ten, some with one eye, others with one ear, with one nostril, or without the sense of smelling at all.