Sentence examples for commanded to marry from inspiring English sources

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

(One virginal young lady is so overcome by his manly good looks that she reduces a bird cage to splinters.) But the doge of Venice is under pressure from Rome to clean up his city, and so Casanova is commanded to marry or face banishment.

He looks mildly anguished at his mother's command to marry (the Queen is given a rather Merry Widow interpretation by Eva Dewaele); mildly anguished when he meets the Swan Queen (Aki Saito ); and only slightly more flustered when deceived by Rothbart (no "von," thank you) and his daughter.

When the King (the persuasive John Cullum) commands him to marry Helena, who has saved his life with her father's medicines, the snobbish Bertram replies, in front of Helena, "I cannot love her nor will strive to do't".

In the first section, Hosea is commanded by Yahweh to marry a prostitute by the name of Gomer as a symbol of Israel's playing the part of a whore searching for gods other than the one true God.

Our eyes are commanded to open.

Master Chief is commanded to protect the station.

March until commanded to halt.

He was commanded to be baptized.

For instance, laws conferring the power to marry command nothing; they do not obligate people to marry, or even to marry according to the prescribed formalities.

Hope continued in command of small ships for several years, pausing in 1792 to marry his distant cousin, Lady Anne Hope Johnstone.