Sentence examples for commanded that we from inspiring English sources

My mother had never commanded that we be there each Sunday at six.

Yet if God commanded that we kill our innocent child in cold blood, would we not resist the rightness of this act?

Our manual commanded that we phone base to check the wind speed: too much of a gale and we would risk being beached.

Rowley suggested that we drink late and do the whole thing on a hangover, but in rare moment of responsibility I commanded that we all have an early night.

One day we met outside his house and he just pointed at a small nearby mountain and commanded that we should all climb to the top and he would teach us how to masturbate (Marius called it "getting the feeling").

"We commanded that knowledge as a mobile phone company," says Holm. "We did the research.

We were arcing down over the Arctic Circle, gravity once again commanding that we who went up must come down.

Her technique as a novelist is so sure and so quietly commanding that we forget the essential artifice, and as soon as we meet the inhabitants of her rooms we start to advise them on redecoration; to psychoanalyse them; to fantasise about introducing them to other Brookner characters, whom surely they have narrowly avoided bumping into at the Wallace Collection or the Royal Academy.

When the Bible commands that we "love" the foreigner, it was not speaking of emotional tenderness: in Leviticus, "love" was a legal term: it was used in international treaties, when two kings would promise to give each other practical support, help and loyalty, and look out for each other's best interests.

The instrumentalist argues that some states some of the time issue commands that we (or at least some individuals) ought to submit to without critical reflection on each command.

The natural law stipulates no specifics here but merely commands that we enter into some such consensual arrangements, since without them sociality would be hampered and humans remain in the natural state.