Sentence examples for command not to from inspiring English sources

At the heart of the Catholic teaching is the Christian abhorrence of violence--the command not to kill, to turn the other cheek, to hold human life sacred.

Conservative politicians were under strict instructions from the Tory high command not to turn off voters by appearing too cocky or overconfident.

It ended with both a plea and a command not to judge her without first walking a mile in her shoes.

Having lapsed into sinfulness when he violated God's command not to disclose the secret of his strength, Samson suffers physically when he is blinded; he also suffers psychologically because he is enslaved by his enemies.

For at least that time, the prestige and rewards of serving in the royal household must have been attractive, and members of the court apparently regarded the king as divine, his command not to be denied.

Mr. Burleson recently recorded Leon Kirchner's Piano Sonata from 1948 on a Vienna Modern Masters CD that is to be released in April, and he played the demanding work with command, not to mention from memory.

Writing down the Ten Commandments, Zeblyan notices that while men are commanded not to covet their neighbors' wives, Hashem (a Hebrew word for God) doesn't say the same thing about women and their neighbors' husbands.

The novel's dialogue is full of commands not to speak or not to listen.

He has called his novels "Cubist," and we are almost commanded not to try to iron out the kinks.

It's an imaginative introduction to putting together sequences of commands, not to mention literal de-bugging when it doesn't quite work.

According to the Bible, though she had been commanded not to, Lot's wife looked back to glimpse the fiery destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and was turned into a pillar of salt for her disobedience.