Sentence examples for instructed to act from inspiring English sources

The women are all actresses and were instructed to act the way they did.

They were instructed to act in a neutral manner and given exactly 10 minutes with each patient, timed by stopwatch.

Ms. Wachs must not have been paying attention when everybody was instructed to act like a cardboard cutout.

Gray's lawyers last night confirmed that they had been instructed to act for him over his sacking.

A spokesman for Schillings has since confirmed that the firm had been instructed to act on behalf of Winslet.

A spokesman for Schillings confirmed that the firm had been instructed to act on behalf of Winslet.

All of the students were then instructed to do acts of kindness for others as a self-improvement activity.

Edward Arnold, Robert Benchley, Ann Harding and Barbara Brown play fatuous adults, and a whole pack of other youngsters behave like kids instructed just to act hey-hey.

Vu had anticipated the possibility of such a call and had instructed Glover to act as if nothing had happened.

At their morning briefings, officers said, they were instructed only to "act professionally" — just as they are told every year.

This impersonal approach seemed stubbornly wrongheaded when applied to the most cerebral and psychologically complex of Broadway songwriters, and in some cases you wondered if the singers had been instructed not to act the lyrics but to treat the songs as orchestral showpieces with added voices.