Sentence examples for instructing us that from inspiring English sources
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.
Audrey Corn A notice arrived in the mail recently instructing us that it was time to renew the license for our dog, Jimmy, so my husband decided to take the dog with him for a ride to the West Orange Town Hall.
The First Lady is instructing us that our food choices matter -- in both macro and micro ways.
My guess -- without the nudge from the Huffington Post, which may or may not have elicited the subsequent decisive action taken by the IEA, the Department of Energy would still be instructing us that Hurricane Gustav is no reason to make our oil from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve available to steady the turbulent distortions being caused in the market because of the advent of Gustav.
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".
"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".
Saying he had read that Ms. Rice authorized waterboarding, he asked her, "Is waterboarding torture?" She replied: "The president instructed us that nothing we would do would be outside of our obligations, legal obligations, under the Convention Against Torture.
History also instructs us that presidents who leavened their responsibilities with humor often produced records of accomplishment and portraits of psychological health that future presidents would be wise to seek to emulate.
