Sentence examples for are commanded to from inspiring English sources

Our eyes are commanded to open.

Reason can be a form of sleep in which monsters are commanded to appear.

Interested parties are commanded to stop being so common at once.

Jews are commanded to survive as Jews by the martyrs of the Holocaust.

Orthodox Jews are commanded to marry, but the early Christians found celibacy a high calling.

We are commanded to worship God alone, and for our sins we are answerable to no one but Him.

Again, this is a very clear instruction that believers are commanded to drive out oppressors from their place of abode.

The day after New Year's, 1945, Arnold and other old men are commanded to build a barricade against the approaching Russian tanks.

"They live in very unbecoming living conditions – bad living conditions if you like – yet they are commanded to protect the few people who destroy them".

In the Torah, the Israelites are commanded to celebrate the Sukkot harvest holiday with fruit of "a beautiful tree," an expression that in Hebrew includes the word hadar.

A Haggadah, from the Hebrew root "HGD" — "to tell" — relates the story of the exodus from Egypt, which Jews are commanded to tell to their children.