Sentence examples for issued a commandment from inspiring English sources

When Super Bowl I in 1967 was about 30,000 short of a sellout at the Los Angeles Coliseum, Commissioner Pete Rozelle issued a commandment to his aides: every future Super Bowl must be a sellout.

They even issued a "Ten Commandments for Choosing a Mate" that advised against marrying a person with an undesirable characteristic, or the possibility of inheriting one: "Never marry the one good person from a bad family".

Ofra's rabbi even issued a religious edict that the commandment to settle the land overrides the prohibition on making non-Jewish employees work on the Sabbath, so that construction workers could build round the clock.

Last year, it issued a list of guidelines that some have called a Ten Commandments for drivers.

In a statement issued a couple of hours ago, Greaves said, "The Satanic Temple will not seek to erect its monument unless the 10 Commandments is restored.

Beshear then issued an advisory opinion that displaying the Commandments in classrooms under any circumstances was banned by the Court's ruling.

As attorney general, Beshear issued an opinion that copies of the Ten Commandments would have to be removed from the walls of the state's classrooms in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Stone v. Graham.

But today a federal judge issued his own commandment: Thou shalt remove thy monument.

Even in that liberal seaside city, it seemed implausible that thousands of people would support an effort to outlaw an ancient ritual that Jews and Muslims believe fulfills a commandment issued by God.

During the film's closing credits, God issues a new commandment to the outgoing audience: "Thou shalt do the dance", and later follow by the footage where the film's cast and crew dance to "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" by C+C Music Factory.

As was once confirmed by the eminent contemporary historian Masoud Behnoud, the shah's often progressive ideas fell at every obstacle because they were dreamed up in his royal head and were issued as commandments.