Sentence examples for have been commanded to from inspiring English sources

So, they reasoned, Abraham could not really have been commanded to carry out child sacrifice.

"Trovatiara" takes place on a dock in Tripoli, where three ravishing "pirate girls" have been commanded to perform for the cruel emir, Saddam el-Djaloppy.

This is felt most acutely in Fukushima's "exclusion zone", whose residents have been commanded to stay in their shelters and where lorry-drivers are afraid or unable to reach them.

We have been commanded to be kind to our fellow man, including our neighbors.

And then, as we have been commanded to do in every generation, we put that commitment into action.

(RNS) For thousands of years Jews have been commanded to blow the shofar, the horn of an animal, whose sound is said to rouse the soul.

But he sympathized with officers who had been commanded to shoot their fellow-citizens.

Each of her sons — 21, 19 and 14 — has been commanded to make at least one daily deposit.

As Marietta Chudakova, a historian of Russian literature and courageous public figure, puts it, "Nobody has been commanded to lie down and everyone is already on the ground".

After the 54th had been commanded to torch a defenseless Georgia port town, an action to which Shaw had objected, the regiment distinguished itself in responding to a Confederate surprise attack at James Island, South Carolina, on July 16 , 1863

The spacecraft had been commanded to first send back five photographs taken at closest approach, but because of a software glitch, it instead sent back the images in the order they had been taken, starting with faraway ones.