Over the years, I heard and used the admonition to "pick your battles" quite a few times.
Government advertisements urge consumers not to succumb to panic buying, using a proverbial admonition: Bread for today is hunger for tomorrow.
Few rules of contemporary society seem more unanimous right now than the strict admonition against using a smartphone at mealtime.
But just as one senior Culture Ministry official said Ms. Tasca was obliged to put Mr. Loyrette in his place, the director of one major cultural institution said the language she used in her admonition was both inappropriate and unnecessarily personal.
Likewise, the long-lived admonition that Americans are using too much salt is facing a strong challenge from research published in prominent medical journals.
When I reflect on those times, what strikes me most is the opportunity my sisters and I could have had to use dad's admonitions to enjoy our own peaceful silence.
The full interview covers a lot of ground, but the breakouts regarding social media include an admonition against those "in leadership" using it in ways that prevent establishing "a common space on the internet," which seems an oblique reference to Donald Trump and his use of Twitter, which is often divisive, and seemingly intentionally so.
I scrolled down to the bottom, where this admonition appeared: "This story was dynamically generated using a generic 'template' and is not factual.
In 2 Peter, the apocalypse is no longer imminent and is not used to further any admonition.
Granted most of the planting has been done and the admonition to use water-saving plants is a moot topic for the majority of property owners, many of whom have established landscapes and other plantings for this season.
Indeed, the encyclical's full embrace of the science of climate change has put off some who might otherwise support its underlying and Scripture-based admonition to use the Earth's goods responsibly.
