Sentence examples for unless commanded from inspiring English sources

Unless commanded to "visit," the dog will not approach patients.

Nothing escaped the edges of his photographs unless he commanded it.

The Senate, much ridiculed for antique practices like the filibuster and the cloture vote, was expressly designed as a "cooling" chamber, where bills might indeed die unless they commanded broad support.Broad support from the voters is something that both the health bill and the cap-and-trade bill clearly lack.

The MoD said the Reaper was not an autonomous system and did not have the capability to employ weapons unless it was commanded to do so by the flight crew.

The House is controlled by Republicans, who typically operate under the so-called Hastert rule, which holds that no legislation will move to the House floor unless it commands the support of a majority of Republicans (rather than just a majority of the House).

In fact, one of the things about ultra-observant Jews is that there is no gray area: unless you are explicitly commanded to do something, you are actually prohibited from doing it.

Adams, for example, holds that God should be understood as benevolent and as just, and indeed concedes that his theological voluntarist account of obligation as the divinely commanded is implausible unless God is thus understood (Adams 1999, pp. 253 255).

She commanded.

Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said unless his party wielded sufficient influence to form a coalition with either main party that commanded a Commons majority, the country could be forced back to the ballot box by Christmas.

This calculation occurs every 5 min. Unless hypoglycemic risk or insufficient IOB is detected, the system remains silent (i.e., the patient's basal rate will be commanded).

The pirate parent does not command unless absolutely necessary -- at times of crisis, mutinies and broken rules.