Sentence examples for commandment from inspiring English sources

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commandment

noun

Something that must be obeyed; a command or edict.

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This is another key commandment from the high priest of productivity: often, things are left undone because you haven't figured out the specific actions required in order to do them.

The eleventh commandment Cannonball Clarke ReprintsThis arrangement came to light in February, when John Downey was cleared of taking part in a terrorist attack that had killed four soldiers in Hyde Park in 1982.

Too rich for a rebate Blunkett's commandment Own goal Waiting for Butler Who chooses what?

One Israeli commentator probably spoke for the nation when he remarked (link in Hebrew) that in Turkey the commandment is "you shall not murder unless it's the Armenians".* Update: Readers have pointed out that Kennedy's supposed gaffe is an urban myth.

A 1791 law calls for whipping, jail time and ruinous fines for breaking the sixth commandment.

Mark Udall calls environmental conservation the Udalls' "eleventh commandment", which endears them to their states' Democrats as well as their hunters and fishermen.

The eleventh commandment Cannonball Clarke ReprintsThe result would be a heavily financial market, with banks and insurance companies making up 28% of the index by value and investment trusts a further 26%.

("A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you").

Whether his giddy ascent will last has been hard to say, in part because his opponents had not had a chance to assail him directly until this week's debate, the first Mr Perry has participated in.The eight candidates gathered at Ronald Reagan's presidential library repeatedly broke the Gipper's "eleventh commandment": "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican".

"Today, adhering to that commandment would be a criminal act," Mr. Gottfried said.

It ended with a commandment in capital letters: "DON'T LIE! DON'T PARTICIPATE IN LIES, DON'T SUPPORT A LIE!" The lie, wrote the author of "The Gulag Archipelago", had become "a mode of existence" in the USSR, "incorporated into the state system as the vital link holding everything together".

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