Sentence examples for commandment to avoid from inspiring English sources

The finger-pointing and fierce exchanges that have animated the Republican presidential race may violate Ronald Reagan's often-cited, yet rarely followed, 11th Commandment to avoid speaking ill of fellow Republicans.

Circuses may be transgressing the Jewish edict of tzaar ba'alei chaim, the commandment to avoid inflicting gratuitous pain on animals.

Saying the name of God could be blasphemy but Hitchens maintained it was just a case of "injured vanity" on the part of the Almighty, as in "Nobody knows how to obey this commandment, or how to avoid blasphemy or profanity.

This just wasn't one of those moments, but here are five simple commandments on how to avoid the sexism trap when you are a male politician who feels the need to charm a woman in public.

The minute I arrived at the airport, I was greeted by a sign instructing me in the commandments of "mindful" tourism, and pamphlets telling me to "avoid buying products from multinational corporations... which are destroying local economies the world over".

These Ugandan spazzes try to avoid talking just in case they break the commandment against "giving false witness".

That's when the Treasury Department required that U.S.-managed funds, to avoid taxes legally, had to have ten administrative functions ("the Ten Commandments") outside of the U.S. One of the commandments was maintaining books and records.

Second, he asserted that certain precepts of the Mosaic Law were related to specific historical situations and to the need to avoid too sharp a break with popular customs and practices for instance, the commandments concerning sacrifice.

The Creator never speaks to Noah (Aronofsky was shrewd enough to avoid the sonorous God of Cecil B. De Mille in "The Ten Commandments"), but Noah believes that he knows what the Creator wishes: he wants Noah to preserve only the innocent animals and to let the human line, including his own family, expire.

To avoid fashion faux pas, most executives refer to their own "Thou shalt not wear" commandments.

If the Ten Commandments monument is now understood to be government speech, he said, "the specter of violating the Establishment Clause will behoove" the city "to take care to avoid the appearance of a flat-out establishment of religion".