Sentence examples for commanded of us from inspiring English sources

My mother on that phone, her back toward the room, head down, absorbing bad news in what had fast become the silence her taking a call during dinner commanded of us.

He expressed sympathy for illegal immigrants in the vaguest terms ("We cannot forget the humanity God commands of us").

But these people are God's children, who wanted simply to be Americans, and we cannot forget the humanity God commands of us as we seek a remedy to this problem.

My awful manager, Gloria, found Glassdoor and commanded each of us to write a positive review about the company.

They interrogate prisoners, gather intelligence, operate rendition flights, protect senior occupation officials - including some commanding US generals - and in some cases have taken command of US and international troops in battle.

Currently, they would come under the command of US forces if war broke out, whereas the plan is for separate commands in the future.

According to Byers and Eichelberger, MacArthur told him "in a grim voice": The next day, Eichelberger's party was flown to Dobodura, where he assumed command of US troops in the Buna area.

Petraeus also served as commander of US central command, and then commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan before retiring from the army.

In Oman, Sultan Qaboos bin Said al-Said told the then commander of US central command, Admiral William Fallon: "Iran is a big country with muscles and we must deal with it".

Authentically Islamic traditions and much of the Quran commands us to use reason.

This approach arises from a very different command than of US laws because the Precautionary Principle is a fundamental constitutional principle to justify environmental choices.