Sentence examples for instruct by a from inspiring English sources

"fatwa - 1625, from Arabic fetwa - 'a decision given by a mufti;' related to fata - 'to instruct by a legal decision.' Popularized 1989 when Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran issued a ruling sentencing author Salman Rushdie to death for publishing 'The Satanic Verses' (1988).

But the disciples rebel at being instructed by a woman.

The robot is instructed by a human operator wearing a data glove capturing the hand poses.

This translation process, called compiling, is performed by a computer as instructed by a compiling program.

I did it first 6 years ago after having been instructed by a local expert.

You are instructed by a hollow-cheeked, betel-nut-spitting, possibly tubercular teacher.

He is instructed by a wise if cautious fox, and by a sinister angel of death, the snake.

A group of children, of an average age of 11, tried to play football, instructed by a 15-year-old.

In France, though, Rabelais portrayed saints as fools, and coined the phrase: "The wise may be instructed by a fool".

He was then instructed by a seer to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia, and thereby to break the impasse.

Most research of this kind has focused on reactive control that is, how subjects stop a response outright when instructed by a signal.