Sentence examples for they were under orders from inspiring English sources
After that they were under orders not to harm him".
Members of the team said they were under orders to advance "as much as feasibly possible".
Court officers said they were under orders to run the overflow room like a regular courtroom.
Lincoln Center officials said they were under orders not to discuss the matter beyond the prepared statement.
American commanders said they were under orders to arrest no one, least of all the Mahdi insurgents.
The army denied that its soldiers intentionally fired toward civilians, saying that they were under orders not to.
They're under orders to read it.
They are under orders to stop the Rohingya entering Bangladesh.
Now they are under orders to stop any suspicious Iraqi tanker.
As one-quarter of them are serving soldiers, at least one of them must vote for the amendment – a near impossibility, as they are under orders.
The police mostly hold their fire; they are under orders not to break the ceasefire, on whose continuance all hope of successful political negotiations depends.
