Sentence examples for command the actions from inspiring English sources

The settlers, in turn, have become a potent constituency of the right-wing political parties that support them -- a force powerful enough to command the actions of important ministers or to destabilize government coalitions.

In the possible world in which God issues a command to φ, there is a moral state of affairs its being obligatory to φ which lacks a justification (for the action is subsumed under no other divine command) and is not necessary (for God might have failed to command the action).

Domain will contain the ID of the S3DB rule that will command the action.

Two days after the Ashura uprising, in a government-staged rally in Tehran, Ahmad Alam-ol-hoda, Friday prayer leader of Mashhad, acknowledged, "The Monafeqin [Mujahedin] commanded the actions carried out on Ashura.

Well, it's beyond insidious because it is an admission that the Army has determined it can't trust anyone in the combat chain of command — that the actions of General Kensinger are the rule, not the exception, and that this kind of malfeasance among soldiers is expected to be so common that it requires regular policing.

It is in this way that Lawson commands the action: bent over her flowers, one eye darting outward, making sure that we know who has arranged them.

In the scene, Socrates and Euthyphro are discussing the nature of piety when Socrates presents the dilemma, which can be presented as the question 'Is X good because God commands it, or does God command X because it is good?' The Euthyphro dilemma can elicit the response that an action is good because God commands the action, or that God commands an action because it is good.

Her command of the action-adventure idiom is more than enough to hold interest.

When he does show up once more, aged and weathered, he takes immediate and complete command of the action.

For all her impressive command of the action in JUDAS HORSE (Knopf, $23.95), April Smith couldn't write a stock thriller if she tried.

For it is a sincerity condition on the giving of commands that the commander intend that the commanded perform the action; and so if this objection reduces (2) to absurdity, the only way that the defender of (1) can avoid having his or her position reduced to absurdity is by holding that God is not necessarily sincere.