Sentence examples for we were instructed by from inspiring English sources

"We were instructed by the government to get the lowest price," said Ali Mubdir, director of crude oil sales in the State Oil Marketing Organization, or SOMO.

"We were instructed by our regional administrator that we were no longer allowed to use the terms 'global warming' or 'climate change' or even 'sea-level rise'," said a second former DEP employee, Kristina Trotta.

In preparing the fairness opinion, according to the memo from Alan Schwartz and Michael Offen of Bear , Stearns "we were instructed by McKesson to rely only on the information provided to us by McKesson and HBOC and not to adjust any of this information based on questions raised by Deloitte".

I was in a 100-girl drill team-we were called the Tornettes.. We went on the field at halftime during football games, performing...our Rockette-influenced routines..the band would break into our theme song, and the phony smiles we were instructed by our officers to display..would become real smiles.

We were instructed by their attorney that we could not ask anything about the murders.

If we were instructed by our genes to "do X under all circumstances", we would have little capacity for change.

Some began: "We are instructed by our client..."...

We are instructed by his contributions, but the narrative is neither informed nor enlivened by them.

Yet they give the impression to borrowers that their case has been escalated to a third party, using legal language such as "We are instructed by our client" and "We are likely to be instructed to commence court proceedings".

Mongol rulers, we're instructed by the wall text, reconciled their nomadic roots with the perks of sedentary life by lugging giant tents on wheeled contraptions pulled by oxen.

We are instructed by the mayor that the garish crimes of police gun-running and fake arrests are the work of rogues, not the daily toil of honest police officers.