Sentence examples similar to the prescribed command from inspiring English sources

For instance, laws conferring the power to marry command nothing; they do not obligate people to marry, or even to marry according to the prescribed formalities.

What is the prescribed treatment?

Follow the prescribed regimen.

His idea was that we have within us this separate capacity to recognize divine command and to be drawn towards it out of a sense of dependence on the God who prescribes the command to us, and will punish us if we disobey (though our motive should not be to avoid punishment) (Ibid., §135).

Congress prescribed the command.

The pure or unqualified version of supererogationism highlights the moral potential of good human action not prescribed or commanded, imposed or demanded in any sense.

There is typically the need for prescribing and commanding a collection of interacting dynamic control systems in order to meet the desired requirements for overall behavior, whereas conventional control design has only one system to govern.

For the smooth working of their plan for the invasion of France, the Germans had preliminarily to reduce the ring fortress of Liège, which commanded the route prescribed for their 1st and 2nd armies and which was the foremost stronghold of the Belgian defenses.

The word "must" is substituted for the word "shall" after the word "whom", since a condition is prescribed, not a command.

But the second table is contingent, though fitting our nature, and God could prescribe different commands even for human beings (Ord. I, dist. 44).

The legislature not only commands the purse, but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated.