Sentence examples for acting upon the command of from inspiring English sources

Consequently, acting upon the command of a certain oracle, they purified the island of Delos, which was sacred to Apollo and had been defiled, as men thought, by the burial there of the dead.

Advancing toward each other, each side would hold its fire for as long as possible in order to close range and obtain a better aim, and then, acting upon the word of command, the opposing lines would fire salvo after salvo into each other.

The claims that we are acting upon the wishes of the UN is a fallacy.

And when it comes to acting upon the outcomes of research assessment, funders have vastly differing viewpoints.

This noxious factor, acting upon the [vulnerability of] schizoidia, transforms the latter into schizophrenia.

This is not surprising, as they are both acting upon the same component of RA synthesis.

It highlights the salient features of various important physico-chemical parameters acting upon the general water quality of the river.

The OSF shows higher rigidity than the Ilizarov in the control of forces acting upon the femur.

Formation pressure is the pressure acting upon the fluids in the pore space of the formation.

Regulatory activity acting upon the entire genome is another cause of dinucleotide bias.

Thus, the Sahel Belt is a zone of strong selective pressure acting upon the human population.