Sentence examples for were commanded to take from inspiring English sources

Owners were commanded to take care of their weapons.

In Nizhny Novgorod, top officials were commanded to take up volleyball and swimming.

A sabbatical is an ancient biblical concept -- even in Leviticus those working in the fields were commanded to take a respite.

Stardust was commanded to take more than 70 high-resolution pictures, and the dust analysis instruments investigated the environment around the comet.

Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has been making speeches around the U.S. saying that the current Endangered Species Act is a biblical imperative: "In Genesis, Noah was commanded to take into the ark two-by-two and seven-by-seven every living thing in creation," and modern society must now accept the same environmental obligation.

It is because we were strangers we are commanded to take up the cause of the stranger.

For safety reasons, the touchdown was actually commanded to take place east of the Cape, far out at sea.

Emphasis has, for example, been laid upon Ezra 9 2 and 10 2, in which the reestablished community is commanded to give up wives taken from "the peoples of the land".

The spacecraft had been commanded to first send back five photographs taken at closest approach, but because of a software glitch, it instead sent back the images in the order they had been taken, starting with faraway ones.

Estimates of baseline characteristics, clinical risk factor prevalence and vaccine uptake were adjusted by using STATA cluster commands to take into account potential clustering at the 27 sampling venues which clients were recruited from.

All the prevalence estimates, univariate and multivariate analyses were weighted back, using STATA SVY commands, to take account of the total number of eligible young people in a given household.