as in instruction
a statement of what to do that must be obeyed by those concerned
the boss left behind a list of commandments for running the office while he was away
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Victory was the only commandment to observe; the will to rule and to carry through a political program without compromise, that was the only virtue; hesitation, that was the only crime.
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Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
Other traditions combine them into one commandment.
—Kenneth Seeskin, Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2024
LaVey had distilled Satanism into nine statements — not commandments (Satan would never tell you what to do).
—Alex Bhattacharji, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2024
So now Trump, a man who has broken every commandment countless times, is the arbiter of who is a good Jew.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
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Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
Other traditions combine them into one commandment.
—Kenneth Seeskin, Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2024
LaVey had distilled Satanism into nine statements — not commandments (Satan would never tell you what to do).
—Alex Bhattacharji, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2024
So now Trump, a man who has broken every commandment countless times, is the arbiter of who is a good Jew.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
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When clicking on the search result, the Washington Examiner was directed to the search page on Disaster Assistance’s website, which included instructions on where to go to buy cocaine, directing to a site advertising contact information on WhatsApp and Telegram.Elaine Mallon, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 27 Oct. 2024
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Encourage your employees to follow the school's instructions and be prepared for updates regarding when to pick up their child or additional actions.Adam Coughran, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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In spite of the edict coming with a strong enforcement tool, capital punishment, the controls were widely violated.Roger Valdez, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
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The Taliban’s latest edicts last month, referred to by Streep, include the demand for women and girls to remain silent in public.Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 26 Sep. 2024
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Studio commissaries, cafeterias and executive dining rooms long have been spaces to surreptitiously goggle at visiting talent as well as places to be seen with the powers that be for girding one’s position in the corporate pecking order.Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2024
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The investigative arm of Japan’s Financial Services Agency reported in September that a Nomura employee placed misleading orders in the government bond futures market in 2021.Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Asia, 1 Nov. 2024
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The unanimous ruling comes after the Department of Corrections revised its rules for lethal injection procedures in March and Attorney General Russell Coleman subsequently filed a motion to lift an injunction that has halted executions in the commonwealth since 2010, according to court records.Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 24 Oct. 2024
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In court papers, lawyers for the state contend that an injunction would be an unnecessary intrusion into Virginia election procedures.Matthew Barakat, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2024
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Last month, a state judge in Georgia issued a directive that officials have a mandatory duty to certify election results, rejecting the argument that officials can block the results due to allegations of fraud.Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2024
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Following an April 2021 directive from the Russian government mandating the dismissal of all local staff at U.S. diplomatic missions in Russia, the State Department said Shonov began working for a contractor supporting the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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The group doesn’t have any grand sense of their musical direction though, preferring to take things one song at a time.Al Shipley, SPIN, 28 Oct. 2024
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That selection was a gesture in the direction of light-touch regulation.Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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“Commandment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commandment. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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