Sentence examples for commandment in a from inspiring English sources

This marks the second time this month that Mr. Bush moved against his party (defying the 11th Commandment in a generalized sense) and drew attention to G.O.P. ideological rigidity.

However, Protestants and Mormons made the ban on graven images a separate commandment in a deliberate effort to portray the statues in Catholic churches as idolatrous.

She wrote to Leicester: We could never have imagined (had we not seen it fall out in experience) that a man raised up by ourself and extraordinarily favoured by us, above any other subject of this land, would have in so contemptible a sort broken our commandment in a cause that so greatly touches us in honour .

When Roy S. Moore, former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, placed a monument to the Ten Commandments in a government building, he showed that he didn't respect process.

Thankfully the Court of the Judiciary in Alabama acted courageously by recognizing that displaying the Ten Commandments in a courthouse is not only a deceptively innocuous act, but an illegal one as well (editorial, Nov. 14).

Chief Justice Moore, a white Republican, was elected to his post last year after vowing to display the Ten Commandments in a prominent place to acknowledge the supremacy of God as the basis of the law.

While no one has argued that the two teenage gunmen would have been deterred by a likeness of the Ten Commandments in a Columbine hallway, many people contend that by displaying the commandments and words like "In God we trust," schools would have a chance to reinforce precepts of moral rectitude.

A Utah city had placed a donated monument of the Ten Commandments in a public park, but it rejected another group that wanted to place a monument to the tenets of its faith, the "Seven Aphorisms of Summum," in the same park.

R. 'The Ten Commandments' In a six-part documentary about the making of this Cecil B. DeMille epic, released in 1956 and again last week in a two-disc edition by Paramount, it's agreed that he had one instinct shared by all great directors: hire good people and leave them alone.

The Court decided that framed copies of the Commandments in a Kentucky courtroom violated the doctrine of separating church and state, but that a monument at the Texas Capitol was an acceptable tribute to America's legal history.Officials unveiled a new design for the Freedom Tower, which will be built on the site of the World Trade Centre in New York (scheduled for completion in 2010).

Leibowitz's attempt to exclude God from history thus leaves him apparently unable to account for the divinity of the commandments in a manner that would render their performance acts of commitment to God in the ordinary sense.