Sentence examples for commandment is that from inspiring English sources

His first commandment is that everything be 100 per cent he is a perfectionist.

"The new commandment is that we love one another, not by pairs, as in the world, but en masse," he decreed.

And therefore our express pleasure and commandment is that, all delays and excuses laid apart, you do presently upon the duty of your allegiance obey and fulfill whatsoever the bearer hereof shall direct you to do in our name.

The tenth commandment is that a man should not covet and lust after another man's wife, which means, by direct implication, that he sure as heck ought to be lusting after his own wife.

Elizabeth's "commandment" was that the Governor-General immediately resign his post in a formal ceremony in the same place where he had taken it.

Elizabeth's "commandment" was that her emissary read out her letters of disapproval publicly before the Dutch Council of State, Leicester having to stand nearby.

Rather, the revolutionary message of the Ten Commandments is that this moral order is tied both to the order of the cosmos and to a direct relationship of covenantal love and responsibility between God and a community of human beings.

One of the interesting things about commandments is that I usually don't have to ask someone to explain what it means.

Mountain View's commandment is also that the free speech much flow.

Ray's greatest films say the same thing, but obliquely, through the camera's gaze; but these words' prophetic, exhortatory quality, where an aesthetic programme in the context of cinema is also becoming a more general commandment, is surprisingly Naipaulean; except that Naipaul has been more explicit, dogged, and hectoring.

However you look at it, this commandment is not something that we would ever write into law.