Sentence examples for instruct us that from inspiring English sources

He appeared to instruct us that any conviction might be unsafe.

The film sets out to instruct us that nature can overwhelm us, but instead overwhelms us with art.

Prenuptial agreements were once optional instruments for multimillionaires; now legal Web sites instruct us that "every couple should and must have a prenuptial agreement or marriage contract".

On the front page of the Week in Review section Jad Mouawad set out to instruct us that oil's future is murky ("The Big Thirst").

A few days earlier, Commissioner Jill Sommers, forever happy to lend a good word supporting delay, delay, delay, would instruct us that it was "bad policy to promulgate regulations that are not enforceable".

"It is discouraging to know that one of your staffers has nothing better to write about than how women are sex objects and to instruct us that the more successful sex objects get lots of perks," Sara Wermiel, a New Republic reader from Boston, wrote to the magazine, which ran a half-dozen complaints about the piece in a subsequent edition.

History instructs us that the Yankees used that Series as a learning tool, acquiring more power and ego in the person of Reggie Jackson and beating the Dodgers the next two years.

Hajdu instructs us that "the arrival of a man rarely improves a relationship between sisters".

"There's no question in my mind the players are unified, that if this deal and this is the best deal they can get, they've instructed us that they're prepared to sit out," he said.

The novelist Kingsley Amis, who wrote a very Fowlerian manual called "The King's English" (1997), instructed us that "medieval" was to be pronounced in four syllables, as "meedy-eeval".

When meta intends to teach us a lesson -- that is, when it's a drag -- it's usually instructing us that we shouldn't confuse fiction with real life.