Instructed Sentence Examples

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  • Don't open it, he instructed him.

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  • From behind her his voice instructed gently.

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  • They are doing exactly what I instructed them to do.

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  • Mr. Gilman instructed me part of the year in English literature.

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  • He made two calls; one for an ambulance and the other to Josh, who was instructed to direct the ambulance in to their house.

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  • Had he been instructed to keep everything strictly business?

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  • He is the constant companion of Dionysus, whom he was said to have instructed in the cultivation of the vine and the keeping of bees.

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  • Let her know what you and your men need, the general instructed them.

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  • When he was twelve years old he was instructed in starcraft by Nectanebus, who was killed by a fall into a pit, into which he had been playfully pushed by Alexander.

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  • When the instrument tells him of a good price, his agent is instructed to sell immediately.

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  • When Bedmar took up this appointment, Venice had just concluded an alliance with France, Switzerland and the Netherlands, to counterbalance the power of Spain, and the ambassador was instructed to destroy this league.

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  • As many as are persuaded and believe that what we teach and say is true, and undertake to be able to live accordingly, are instructed to pray and entreat God with fasting, for the remission of their sins that are past, we praying and fasting with them.

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  • In 1872 an administrative ordinance made German the medium of instruction in the schools "wherever possible," and the police commissaries who attended public meetings were instructed to close any meeting at which speeches were delivered in Polish.

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  • Push hard, and shoot me up, he instructed, though his voice was ragged.

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  • Alex had instructed Carmen to put the insurance benefit in a money market where it would draw interest until Lori had time to recover.

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  • Campbell, representing President Davis, on the other, he instructed his representatives to insist on the recognition of the Confederacy as a condition to any arrangement for the termination of the war.

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  • It was instructed to begin with drafting a Declaration of the Rights of Man.

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  • In the towns and fishing villages there are a few elementary schools, but often the children are instructed at home; in some places by peripatetic teachers.

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  • The controversial treatises which he published in rapid succession attracted much attention, particularly his Catholic Christian Instructed (1737), which was prefaced by a witty reply to Dr Conyers Middleton's Letters from Rome, showing an Exact Conformity between Popery and Paganism.

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  • Further obstruction was manifestly futile, and the British authorities reluctantly instructed Captain Hobson, R.N., to make his way to northern New Zealand with a dormant commission of lieutenant-governor in his pocket and authority to annex the country to Australia by peaceful arrangement with the natives.

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  • Sale, music; Mr Westall, history; and Mr Thomas Steward, the writing master of Westminster School, instructed her in penmanship.

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  • In 1550 it was proposed in Brunswick to banish all " profane " authors from the schools, and in 1589 a competent scholar was instructed to write a sacred epic on the kings of Israel as a substitute for the works of the "pagan" poets.

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  • In Democratic conventions a state delegation, when instructed by the state convention to cast its whole vote solid for the particular aspirant favored by the majority of the delegation, must do so (this is called the unit rule); in the conventions of the other parties individual delegates may vote as they please.

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  • Her profession of a desire to be instructed in the doctrines of Anglican Protestantism was so transparently a pious fraud as rather to afford confirmation than to arouse suspicion of her fidelity to the teaching of her church.

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  • It was necessary that an abbot should be at least 25 years of age, of legitimate birth, a monk of the house, unless it furnished no suitable candidate, when a liberty was allowed of electing from another convent, well instructed himself, and able to instruct others, one also who had learned how to command by having practised obedience.

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  • Moltke drafts German ultimatum to Belgium, sent to Brussels Ambassador (29) to be delivered when instructed.

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  • The steward instructed the waiter to quickly pick up the orders from the chef.

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  • You will usually be instructed to bring your infant in to your pediatrician's office at two weeks after birth and on a regular basis thereafter, in which many of these same examinations will continue to be given.

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  • Once you fill out your search criteria, you may be instructed to submit the information you have chosen.

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  • If you're instructed to go into a pose you don't feel comfortable in, come out of it!

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  • Once the price and terms of the sale have been agreed, a notary is instructed to carry out checks on the property to ensure there are no liabilities or charges against it and to prepare contracts.

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  • Use them as instructed to make purchases.

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  • You may need to use the product less frequently or not keep it on your teeth as long as instructed.

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  • I had instructed the DJ to fade the song out after I had walked down the aisle and reached the altar.

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  • You will be instructed on effective mediation and communication skills, and you will specialize in understanding human resources.

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  • Children should also be instructed in how to properly pick up a dog, as well as the body language a dog uses to let us know how he/she is feeling.

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  • Later, as King Edward VII, he acquired additional tattoos, and even instructed his sons, the Duke of Clarence and the Duke of York (King George V), to obtain tattoos to commemorate their visit to Japan.

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  • Reassemble the junction box and install the light into the ceiling as previously instructed.

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  • You'll be instructed to fill out the selected names on an order form the exact way you'd like to see them engraved.

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  • For example, when measuring the waistline, customers are instructed to measure the "natural" waistline, which brings the tape measure across the belly button.

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  • Consumers were instructed to remove the batteries from the toys immediately and contact Power Wheels to make arrangements for the cars and trucks to be examined at a service center.

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  • Never touch or smell any chemical unless you are instructed to do so.

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  • If instructed to smell a chemical, do not inhale it directly from the container or test tube.

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  • They should be instructed to stay well back from the snowblower while it's being used.

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  • Once you get the lens out of your eye, you should clean it the way that you were instructed by your eye doctor.

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  • While the publisher was instructed by ESRB to request that retailers stop selling the Mature-labeled game until an AO sticker was available, the game has been spotted on retail shelves at stores including Fry's Electronics.

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  • The parents need to be instructed on how to evaluate the infant for jaundice.

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  • In addition, they should be instructed never to dive into an unknown body of water, but instead jump in feet first to avoid hitting their heads.

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  • Parents or caregivers may be instructed to take certain measures at home to reduce the child's fever, such as administering fever-reducing drugs (called antipyretics) such as acetaminophen (Tylenol) or ibuprofen (Advil).

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  • Children need to be instructed not to pick at scabs, because it slows the healing process and increases the risk of infection.

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  • When parents instructed the children to "be polite" when the researcher asked if they liked the soap, as many as 80 percent of these children, ages three to 11 years of age were dishonest.

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  • Parents of premature babies need to be apprised of the possibility of apnea and should be instructed on how to resuscitate their infant if it occurs.

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  • The program engages children in purposeful learning activities and play, instructed by teachers who work from lesson and activity plans.

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  • The child is instructed to listen for a sound and to respond when a sound is heard by doing varying tasks, such as placing a ball in a cup or placing a peg in a pegboard, when the auditory stimulus is heard.

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  • A child with constipation should be instructed to drink an adequate amount of water each day (six to eight glasses), exercise on a regular basis, and eat a diet high in soluble and insoluble fibers.

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  • Parents may wish to avoid using cough remedies for children unless instructed to do so by a physician.

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  • The child must be instructed to never again eat that kind of food that causes an anaphylactic reaction.

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  • In addition, children with a history of allergic reactions should carry an emergency kit containing injectable epinephrine and chewable antihistamine and be instructed in its use.

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  • She may be instructed to rest for the first 24 hours and to avoid heavy lifting for two days.

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  • Children must be old enough to follow directions and inhale and exhale as instructed.

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  • Children and adolescents can be instructed on safety and strangers and inappropriate touching, and the importance of telling parents about any uncomfortable situation.

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  • Boys should be instructed to wash their genitals every day.

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  • Uncircumcised boys need to be instructed that the foreskin should be pulled down daily to expose the tip of the penis, which should then be washed with mild soap and water.

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  • It is a practice that hopes to transform the ways in which students are instructed by giving equal attention to the contributions of all the groups in a society.

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  • The woman should be instructed to monitor fetal movement by selecting a consistent time of day to document how long it takes to feel 10 fetal movements.

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  • She should also be instructed to report significant decreases in fetal activity from the baby's normal pattern.

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  • If the test results are acceptable, the pregnant woman is instructed to continue following her current medical regimen and return for additional testing on the dates prescribed.

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  • Patients will be instructed on how to properly use an inhaler to ensure that it will deliver the right amount of medication.

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  • Parents are instructed to take their infants outdoors for approximately 20 minutes per day with their faces exposed.

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  • She did as her mother, Herodias, instructed, and asked for the head of John the Baptist.

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  • To study history, parents and children are instructed to examine many of the items and happenings in the story that are no longer common, such as steam radiators and the old-fashioned ambulance.

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  • The same is true if you are instructed to send money or banking information with your inquiry.

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  • Always use each part exactly as instructed to avoid damaging your air purifier and having to purchase a new air purifier.

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  • Save your receipt and pack and ship the hand mixer as instructed by the customer service agent.

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  • To use this feature, visitors are instructed to think about a question and then click on "Go to the Oracle".

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  • If he misses it, however, he has to choose a balloon with an instruction inside, and he has to do what is instructed.

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  • Find the items the preschooler has instructed you to find.

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  • Others may take one because they've been instructed to do so by a mental health professional in relation to a court order.

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  • Zink instructed Grilley, and is considered by some to be responsible for popularizing the term "yin yoga" in relation to understanding and practicing Taoist yoga.

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  • Continue to place fabrics on the block as instructed.

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  • Of the 50,000 participants, 40 percent of them were instructed to eat more fruits and vegetables, and reduce fat intake to no more than 20 percent of total calories.

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  • Teens should be instructed in making good nutritional choices, while allowing themselves an occasional "deviation" when a special occasion warrants it.

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  • Instead, they are pages created by marketing departments or writers for hire who are instructed to write "reviews" with a certain ratio of positive to negative reviews.

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  • Many diabetics are instructed to break up their day into smaller snack-size meals eaten about two or three hours apart.

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  • Lambert's performance of Mad World came on the evening when the Idol contestants were instructed to choose songs that were written during the year of their birth.

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  • Older girls can be instructed to dress in their finest, including makeup and high heels.

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  • The teenage host should be instructed to keep the music at a level low enough to avoid disturbing neighbors.

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  • When instructed, kids should call out what they think their animal is.

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  • They are instructed only to look for him if he calls and requests rescue using his satellite phone or if he is not at the arranged pick-up spot on the seventh day.

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  • It also does not pose a risk of major side effects in most people, but patients will usually be instructed to apply an antibacterial ointment to the site during the recovery period.

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  • If Tamer gives you any resistance, let me know, and I.ll drag him here myself, he instructed.

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  • When they arrived at the catacombs, Frederick took the lantern from his manservant and instructed him to wait.

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  • The higher on your back it is, the easier to carry, Mrs. Watson instructed.

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  • When the time comes, strike him down, he instructed.

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  • Rattazzi, frightened at the prospect of an attack upon Rome, proclaimed a state of siege in Sicily, sent the fleet to Messina, and instructed Cialdini to oppose Garibaldi.

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  • His chief advance upon the doctrines of Anaximenes is that he asserted air, the primal force, to be possessed of intelligence- "the air which stirred within him not only prompted, but instructed.

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  • By the euhemeristic Hellespontine Greeks Herodotus was told that Zalmoxis was really a man, formerly a slave of Pythagoras at Samos, who, having obtained his freedom and amassed great wealth, returned to Thrace, and instructed his fellow-tribesmen in the doctrines of Pythagoras and the arts of civilization.

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  • Both parties in the state in 1888 declared in favour of free coinage, and in 1892 instructed their delegates to the national conventions to oppose any candidate who did not favour this policy.

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  • In September 1784 Wesley ordained his clerical helper, Dr Coke, superintendent (or bishop), and instructed him to ordain Asbury as his colleague.

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  • But nothing could be done until the Porte should have come to terms with Russia as to the Treaty of Bucharest; for, as the British ambassador, Sir Robert Liston, was instructed to point out to the Ottoman government, " it is impossible to guarantee the possession of a territory of which the limits are not determined."

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  • To remedy this, Murat and other general officers as well as minor agents were sent ahead and instructed to travel through South Germany in plain clothes with a view to collecting information and mastering the topography.

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  • He believed that Christ instructed men before he came into the world, and he therefore viewed heathenism with kindly eye.

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  • Minister and envoy extraordinary of France at Genoa in 1790-1791, he was instructed by Dumouriez to go to Turin to detach Victor Amadeo III.

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  • Soult having been instructed to co-operate by taking Badajoz and Elvas, Massena, early in June 18to, moved forward, and Ciudad Rodrigo surrendered to him (June to).

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  • She instructed certain of her favourites in gymnastics and athletics, as a useful training for war.

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  • In 1850 Leon Renier was officially instructed to collect all the inscriptions in Algeria which should be found by the military expeditionary columns.

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  • He was instructed to build a strong city in Bahia and to establish there the seat of his government.

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  • The guru before his death at Kiratpur, on the margin of the Sutlej, instructed his grandson and successor, Guru Har Rai, to retain two thousand two hundred mounted soldiers ever with him as a precautionary measure.

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  • In 1835 Lord Gosford, the new governor of Lower Canada, was instructed by the cabinet in London to inquire into the alleged grievances of the French Canadians.

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  • Autolycus is also said to have instructed Heracles in the art of wrestling, and to have taken part in the Argonautic expedition.

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  • Francis I., desirous to continue the suppression of the Protestants but anxious, because of his strife with Charles V., not to break with the Protestant princes of Germany, instructed his ambassador to assure these princes that it was only against Anabaptists, and other parties who called in question all civil magistracy, that his severities were exercised.

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  • As Raouf was instructed to increase the receipts and diminish the expenditure, the system of government naturally reverted to the old methods, which Gordon had endeavoured to improve.

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  • They instructed every corps under his command to be in readiness for action towards the Bistritz at 3 a.m.

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  • Francois de Rochefort, abbot of St Mesmin, instructed Francis and his sister Marguerite in Latin and history; Louise herself taught them Italian and Spanish; and the library of the château at Amboise was well stocked with romances of the Round Table, which exalted the lad's imagination.

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  • You will be instructed to push again to deliver the rest of your baby.

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  • You may see line dancers being instructed in a park, in someone's driveway, at a formal dance studio, or at a country western bar.

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  • William of Champeaux (1070-1121), who is reputed the founder of a definitely formulated Realism, much Y as Roscellinus is regarded as the founder of Nominalism, was instructed by Roscellinus himself in dialectic. Unfortunately none of William's philosophical works have survived, and we depend upon the statements of his opponent Abelard, in the Historia calamitatum mearum, and in certain manuscripts discovered by Cousin.

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  • For the moment nothing more was heard of this boundary question by the public, but General Crespo instructed the Venezuelan minister in Washington to ask for the assistance of the United States in the event of any demand being made by the British Government for an indemnity.

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  • Apparently with this purpose in view, Prince Frederick Charles was instructed to break up his army corps into their constituent divisions, and move each division as a separate column on its own road, the reserve of cavalry and artillery following in rear of the centre.

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  • He instructed Henry in the Catholic religion; and in 1594 was sent to Rome, where with Cardinal d'Ossat (1536-1604) he obtained Henry's absolution.

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  • The abbe de Chateauneuf instructed him early in belleslettres and deism, and he showed when a child the unsurpassed faculty for facile verse-making which always distinguished him.

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  • The men should be instructed in the laws of sanitation, and in the proper care of injured men.

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  • The envoys returned to Kiev in 912 after being shown the splendours of the Greek capital and being instructed in the rudiments of the Greek faith.

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  • She was educated, principally, by the learned Johannes Matthiae, in as masculine a way as possible, while the great Oxenstjerna himself instructed her in politics.

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  • Immediately after the conclusion of the first treaty in 1857, the Yedo authorities instructed the office for studying foreign books (Bunsho torishirabedokoro) to translate excerpts from European and American journals.

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  • Francois de Rochefort, abbot of St Mesmin, instructed Francis and his sister Marguerite in Latin and history; Louise herself taught them Italian and Spanish; and the library of the château at Amboise was well stocked with romances of the Round Table, which exalted the lad's imagination.

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  • Before his illumination he had been instructed by dreams, and enjoyed extraordinary visions, and heard mysterious conversations.

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  • He also collected and emended valuable MSS., which his monks were instructed to copy, and superintended the translation of various Greek works into Latin.

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  • The writer of the Oratorian Commentary (Theodulf of Orleans?) addressing a synod which instructed him to provide an exposition of this work on the faith, writes of it, as " here and there recited in our churches, and continually made the subject of meditation by our priests."

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  • At the confirmation of his election counsel was instructed to object to it, and in the voting the chapter was divided.

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  • Thus the young princess was surrounded by enemies both at court and in the dauphin's household, and came to rely almost entirely upon the Austrian ambassador, the comte de Mercy-Argenteau, whom Maria Theresa had instructed to act as her mentor, at the same time arranging that she herself should be kept informed of all that concerned her daughter, so that she might at once advise her and safeguard the alliance.

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  • Notwithstanding the alarm occasioned by Braddock's defeat, the old quarrel between the proprietors of Pennsylvania and the assembly prevented any adequate preparations for defence; " with incredible meanness " the proprietors had instructed their governors to approve no act for levying the necessary taxes, unless the vast estates of the proprietors were by the same act exempted.

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  • Instructed in the Greek language by his mother, he prevailed upon the king to entrust him with an embassy to Athens about 589 B.C. He became acquainted with Solon, from whom he rapidly acquired a knowledge of the wisdom and learning of Greece, and by whose influence he was introduced to the principal persons in Athens.

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  • A new charter was issued to the duke to perfect his title and Edmund (later Sir Edmund) Andros, the new governor, was instructed to establish English institutions and enforce English law in all sections.

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  • During the interval between the citation and the appearance of the accused, the professorial members of the synod was instructed to prepare themselves to be able to confute the Arminian errors, and the synod occupied itself with deliberations as to a new translation of the Bible, for which a commission was named, made arrangements for teaching the Heidelberg catechism, and granted permission to the missionaries of the East Indies to baptize such children of heathen parents as were admitted into their families.

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  • When the doctrines of Nestorius were denounced to him, he instructed Cyril, bishop of Alexandria, to follow up the matter.

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  • After being at school at Ashford, Tenterden and Felsted, and being instructed in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, he was in 1632 sent to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and afterwards was chosen fellow of Queens' College.

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  • The English reviews were at that time practically publishers' organs, the articles in which were written by hackwriters instructed to praise or blame according to the publishers' interests.

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  • But Guidiccioni, on a careful study of the papers, changed his mind; it is supposed that the cause of this change was in large measure the strong interest in the new scheme exhibited by John III., king of Portugal, who instructed his ambassador to press it on the pope and to ask Ignatius to send some priests of his Society for mission work in Portugal and its Indian possessions.

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  • Six states had ratified the Federal constitution when the New Hampshire convention met at Exeter on the 13th of February 1788, to accept or reject that instrument, and so great was the opposition to it among the delegates from the central part of the state that after a discussion of ten days the leaders in favour of ratification dared not risk a decisive vote, but procured an adjournment in order that certain delegates who had been instructed to vote against it might consult their constituents.

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  • But an analysis of his results leaves the reader in more perplexity than satisfaction at the kind of information imparted, and he reverts insensibly to the sources from which his instructor has himself been instructed.

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  • But if the first human beings thus stood entirely under the dominion of the devil, the glorious spirits took them under their care from the very outset, sending aeons down to them (including Jesus), who instructed them regarding their nature, and in particular warned Adam against sensuality.

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  • For a year he relinquished himself to her endearments, and when he determined to leave, she instructed him how to sail to the land of shades which lay on the verge of the ocean stream, in order to learn his fate from the prophet Teiresias.

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  • They brought with them four Chinese girls, who instructed the court and the people in the art of plain and figured weaving; and to the honour of these pioneer silk weavers a temple was erected in the province of Settsu.

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  • Italian practice has always aimed at the maintenance of peace; therefore, I am happy to be able to say that our delegates at the coming Hague Conference will be instructed to further the English initiative."

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  • As a fact, the commanders-in-chief on the East Indies and Cape of Good Hope stations were instructed that in consequence of the great practical difficulty of proving - at ports so remote from the scene of war operations as Aden and Perim - the real destination of contraband of war carried by vessels visiting those parts, directions were to be given to the officers concerned to cease to search such vessels, and to merely report to the commander-in-chief at the Cape the names of ships suspected of carrying contraband, and the date of clearance.

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  • He was taught the use of the astrolabe (which Prince Yakov Dolgoruki, with intent to please, had brought him from Paris) by a Dutchman, Franz Timmerman, who also instructed him in the rudiments of geometry and fortifications.

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  • After a brief visit to France, where his collection of ancient coins attracted some attention, Galland returned to the Levant in 1676; and in 1679 he undertook a third voyage, being commissioned by the French East India Company to collect for the cabinet of Colbert; on the expiration of this commission he was instructed by the government to continue his researches, and had the title of "antiquary to the king" conferred upon him.

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  • He appears to have spent some of his exile in Iona, where he was instructed in the principles of Christianity.

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  • Further, we learn from Osorio that the Arabs at the time of Gama "were instructed in so many of the arts of navigation, that they did not yield much to the Portuguese mariners in the science and practice of maritime matters."

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  • The park is under the supervision of a superintendent who is appointed and instructed by the Secretary of the Interior.

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  • But such was the system in France before the Revolution that the officers instructed in the method were strictly forbidden to communicate it even to those engaged in other branches of the public service; and it was not until many years afterwards that an account of it was published.

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  • While the boys are instructed in woodwork, needlework is taught to the girls, its introduction in 1889 having been the first recognition of practical instruction in any form.

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  • On the 17th it instructed Sir Hyde Parker to agree to a suspension of hostilities, and not to take active measures against Russia so long as the Reval squadron did not put to sea.

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  • She had been instructed in Greek by Emerson at Concord when she was eighteen years old.

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  • Among the provinces Walloon Belgium is better instructed than Flemish, Luxemburg coming first, followed by Namur, Liege and Brabant in their order.

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  • The expedition had been instructed to endeavour to afford assistance to Heinrich Barth, who had in 1851 crossed the Benue in its upper course, but Baikie was unable to gain any trustworthy information concerning him.

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  • Demophon was burnt to death, and Demeter, to console his parents, took upon herself the care of Triptolemus, instructed him in everything connected with agriculture, and presented him with a wonderful chariot, in which he travelled all over the world, spreading the knowledge of the precious art and the blessings of civilization.

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  • In the Homeric hymn to Demeter, Triptolemus is simply one of the nobles of Eleusis, who was instructed by the goddess in her rites and ceremonies.

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  • The suggestion obviously is that the Romans had been instructed by these Apostles.

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  • The Illinois State Convention of the Republican party, held at Decatur on the 9th and 10th of May 1860, amid great enthusiasm declared Abraham Lincoln its first choice for the presidential nomination, and instructed the delegation to the National Convention to cast the vote of the state as a unit for him.

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  • To avoid any possible modification of a situation so satisfactory, Count Buol, the Austrian president of the diet, was instructed to announce that the constitution as fixed by the Final Act, and guaranteed by Europe, must be regarded as final; that it might be interpreted, but not altered.

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  • Many officials refused to obey; the judges remained loyal to the constitution; and when attempts were made to solve the difficulty by the army, the officers instructed to act resigned in a body.

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  • High language was used at Paris; and the French ambassador, Count Benedetti, was instructed to demand from the king of Prussia the withdrawal of the Hohenzollern candidature.

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  • Euboea, Lesbos, Chios, Erythrae led the way in negotiation and revolt, and simultaneously the court of Susa instructed the satraps Pharnabazus and Tissaphernes to renew the collection of tribute from the Greek cities of Asia Minor.

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  • To avoid the storm, and to save, if possible, his brother's interests, Charles instructed him to leave the country.

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  • He was instructed to persuade the Scottish barons who had just imprisoned the queen to restore her to her authority.

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  • He was instructed to procure from the pope a decretal commission, laying down principles of law by which Wolsey and Campeggio might hear and determine the cause without appeal.

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  • This, as Wolsey saw, was quite inadequate for the purpose in view; and he again instructed Gardiner, while thanking the pope for the commission actually granted, to press him once more by very urgent pleas, to send the desired decretal on, even if the latter was only to be shown to the king and himself and then destroyed.

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  • In this position, during the strike of the railway employes in Chicago in 1894, he instructed the district attorneys to secure from the Federal Courts writs of injunction restraining the strikers from acts of violence, and thus set a precedent for "government by injunction."

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  • The humanist Vives was brought from Italy to teach Latin, and the reader in theology was instructed to follow the Greek and Latin Fathers rather than the scholastic commentaries.

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  • They enforced, when necessary, the alien acts (EmIXacrla), negotiated with foreign ambassadors, instructed generals, sent out expeditions and were the guiding spirits of the Spartan confederacy.

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  • On his return to Ireland he again attempted to moderate the persecuting policy against the Irish Catholics which he was instructed to enforce; and although he was to some extent successful, it was probably owing to his opposition to this policy that he was recalled in November 1614.

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  • Here the younger boys are collected and instructed in the rudiments of reading, writing and religious creed by the village mullah, or priest, who thereby acquires an early influence over the Afghan mind.

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  • The viceroy of India, Lord Lytton, on hearing of his reappearance, instructed the political authorities at Kabul to communicate with him.

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  • The Madras Government was accordingly instructed to enter into permanent engagements with zamindars, and, where no zamindars could be found, to create substitutes out of enterprising contractors.

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  • He was instructed to endeavour to bring Spain into the treaty already existing between France and the United States by a guarantee that Spain should have the Floridas in case of a successful issue of the war against Great Britain, reserving, however, to the United States the free navigation of the Mississippi.

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  • In February 1781 Congress instructed Jay that he might make concessions regarding the navigation of the Mississippi, if necessary; but further delays were interposed, the news of the surrender of Yorktown arrived, and Jay decided that any sacrifice to obtain a treaty was no longer advisable.

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  • Like other spirits of the woods and fields, he possesses the power of inspiration and prophecy, in which he is said to have instructed Apollo.

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  • Larkin (1802-1858), was instructed to work for the secession of California from Mexico, without overt aid from the United States, but with their good-will and sympathy.

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  • To this point the awakened intelligence of the Renaissance, instructed by humanism, polished by the fine arts, expanding in genial conditions of diffused wealth, had brought the Italians at a period when the rest of Europe was comparatively barbarous.

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  • His dinner was ordered daily by a note placed on the hall-table, and his women servants were instructed to keep out of his sight on pain of dismissal.

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  • Enrolled in the Hungarian army during the World War, he was a prisoner of war in Russia, when he was instructed by Lenin for the purposes of Communist propaganda, and after the collapse of the Central Powers he was sent back to Hungary with a commission to set up a Soviet Republic. From March 21 to Aug.

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  • On the 6th of July 1560 a treaty was at last made, nominally between Elizabeth and the queen of France and Scotland; while Cecil instructed his mistress's plenipotentiaries to agree "that the government of Scotland be granted to the nation of the land."

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  • And above all things the young and the ignorant are to be instructed, the former by a regular gradation or ladder of parish or elementary schools, secondary schools and universities.

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  • Colleges, madrasah (where young men are instructed, fed, and frequently also lodged gratuitously), exist in nearly every town.

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  • The students are instructed in Arabic and Persian literature, religion, interpretation of the Koran, Mussulman law, logic, rhetoric, philosophy and other subjects necessary for admittance to the clergy, for doctors of law, &c., while modern sciences are neglected.

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  • Fifteen or sixteen years later it was repeatedly pointed out to the authorities that the revenues from the customs of the Persian Gulf would be much increased if control were exercised at all the ports, particularly the small ones where smuggling was being carried on on a large scale, and in 1883 the shah decided upon the acquisition of four or five steamers, one to be purchased yearly, and instructed the late Au Kuli Khan, Mukhber ad-daulah, minister of telegraphs, to obtain designs and estimates from British and German firms. The tender of a well-known German firm at Bremerhaven was finally accepted, and one of the ministers sons then residing in Berlin made the necessary contracts for the first steamer.

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  • It must be borne in mind that the Boers of every grade have always been more or less sedulously instructed in religious subjects, at all events to the extent required to fit them for formal membership of their church, and in all their wanderings they have usually been attended by their pastors.

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  • Castelar sent out to Cuba all the reinforcements he could spare, and a new governor-general, Jovellar, whom he peremptorily instructed to crush the mutinous spirit of the Cuban militia, and not allow them to drag Spain into a conflict with the United States.

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  • At the congress of Vienna (1814-1815) Portugal was represented by three plenipotentiaries, who were instructed to press for the retrocession of Olivenza and to oppose the restoration of French Guiana, which the Brazilians had conquered in 1809.

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  • He was recalled in 1621, and began to be instructed in the Roman Catholic religion, though his abjuration of Protestantism was deferred until the end of 1622.

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  • He is said to have been originally called Scamandrius, and to have received the name of Helenus from a Thracian soothsayer who instructed him in the prophetic art.

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  • According to his instructions he was merely to march to the Saxon frontier, and there await further orders from the estates; there seems, however, little doubt that he was secretly instructed to afford aid to the German Protestants.

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  • The power of the royal officials who constituted the executive government of Bohemia was greatly curtailed, and though the chief representative of the sovereign in Prague continued to bear the ancient title of supreme burgrave, he was instructed to conform in all matters to the orders of the central government of Vienna.

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  • In consequence of this intimation Mr Bancroft Davis informed the tribunal on the 25th of June that he was instructed not to press those claims; and accordingly on the 27th of June Lord Tenterden withdrew his application for an adjournment, and the arbitration was allowed to proceed.

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  • The other, which was the first to reach Chitral, was under Colonel Kelly, commanding the 32nd Pioneers, who was placed in command of all the troops in the Gilgit district, numbering about 600 all told, with two guns, and instructed to advance by the Shandur pass and Mastuj.

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  • But they, professing somehow to know my mind, attempt to expound the words they heard from me more wisely than I who spoke them, telling those who are instructed by them that this is my meaning, which I never thought of.

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  • He did so at first, probably, in a humble way; but a school, not of boys to be taught the elements of learning, but of young and inquiring spirits who wished to be instructed in the principles of right conduct and government, gradually gathered round him.

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  • From the king of Prussia the prince obtained everything which he had been instructed to require; and having thus fulfilled his mission, he returned into Flanders, where, excepting the capture of Douai, Bethune and Aire, the campaign of 1710 presented nothing remarkable.

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  • By an amendment of 1900, the legislature was instructed to provide that a fixed fraction of the voters might cause any law to be submitted to the people, or that they might require any legislative act (except one passed by a two-thirds vote of each house) to be so submitted before going into effect, but up to 1910 no law had been passed putting the amendment into force.

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  • On the 23rd of February 1805 he agreed with Ahmet that the United States should undertake to re-establish him in Tripoli, that the expenses of the expedition should be repaid to the United States by Ahmet, and that Eaton should be general and commander-in-chief of the land forces in Ahmet's campaign; as the secretary of the navy had given the entire matter into the hands of Commodore Barron, and as Barron and Tobias Lear (1762-1816), the United States consulgeneral at Algiers and a diplomatic agent to conduct negotiations, had been instructed to consider the advisability of making arrangements with the existing government in Tripoli, Eaton far exceeded his authority.

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  • Enoch is clothed by Michael in the raiment of God's glory and instructed in the secrets of nature and of man, which he wrote down in 366 books.

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  • Subsequently Jethro came to Moses (probably at Kadesh), a great sacrificial feast was held, and the priest instructed Moses in legislative procedure; Exod.

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  • C. Rives in 1831, by which France had bound herself to pay an indemnity of twenty-five millions of francs for French spoliations of American shipping chiefly under the Berlin and Milan decrees, and the United States in turn agreed to pay to France 1,500,000 francs in satisfaction of French claims. Livingston's negotiations were conducted with excellent judgment, but the French Chamber of Deputies refused to make an appropriation to pay the first instalment due under the treaty in 1833, relations between the two governments became strained, and Livingston was finally instructed to close the legation and return to America.

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  • It instructed Colonel Stanton to go immediately to the khedive and put the question point blank.

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  • His tutor was Philippe Le Bas, son of the well-known member of the Convention and follower of Robespierre, an able man, imbued with the ideas of the Revolution, while Vieillard, who instructed him in the rudiments, was a democratic imperialist also inspired with the ideal of nationalism.

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  • He returned to Arenenburg to complete his military education under Colonel Armandi and Colonel Dufour, who instructed him in artillery and military engineering.

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  • It was not till December that he instructed 0111vier to "form a homogeneous cabinet representing the majority of the Corps Legislatif" (ministry of the 2nd of January 1870).

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  • After the Dissolution the manor with the markets and fairs and other privileges was granted to Sir Philip Hoby, who increased his power over the town by persuading the burgesses to agree that, after they had nominated six candidates for the office of bailiff, the steward of the court instructed by him should indicate the two to be chosen.

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  • After they retrieved their luggage, Señor Medena instructed a man to carry it to a white limousine.

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  • Warn him about the Other, the Watcher instructed her.

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  • Tell him I am the ruler of Tiyan, and he is invited to a feast in his honor in three days' time, Taran instructed.

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  • Fake left, right to the kidney, Xander instructed the Oracle in the ring.

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  • Members were also instructed to completely abstain from all drugs.

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  • Case Example 4 A member instructed barristers to act for his client at a forthcoming public inquiry.

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  • The patient should be instructed to seek medical advice if short-acting relief bronchodilator treatment becomes less effective or they need more inhalations than usual.

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  • The couple is now instructed to jump the broomstick.

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  • The mother was instructed to bury the body the next day and not to open the casket.

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  • I instructed the congregation to pray for the health and welfare of Reverend Oshimolowo, and for you as well, my dear lady.

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  • After Moses ' death Joshua was divinely instructed to undertake the conquest of Canaan.

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  • Patients were instructed to apply the gel to the affected area twice daily for three weeks.

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  • Robin Cook was instructed by Blair to sell weapons to the genocidal rulers of Indonesia and then demoted.

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  • He then instructed the Sheikh's servant to bring in his own, somewhat disreputable, camel.

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  • The backup diver was no doubt instructed not to buddy breathe to avoid an embolism.

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  • He therefore instructed appropriate professionals to carry out these valuations, which were promptly forwarded to the CTO once they became available.

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  • Not only did the GLC teach the audience how not to dress, they also instructed how to sex up an uncooked ham.

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  • Legend tells how Aethelred was instructed in a dream to build a church " At the place where he sees a white hind " .

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  • Quotes given include work incidental to a mortgage of the property where we are simultaneously instructed by the mortgage lender.

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  • On 7 January 2002 junior counsel then instructed on behalf of Miss Brennan orally advised her solicitor at the time against appealing the decision.

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  • The jointly instructed psychologist had not received a transcript of the judge's findings prior to preparing her report.

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  • They were specifically instructed not to jump to any conclusions.

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  • The Clerk was instructed to give certified intimation to the Session Clerk.

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  • In these circumstances, a properly instructed jury would undoubtedly have convicted.

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  • William the Conqueror instructed his loyal lieutenant, William de Warenne, to build a castle in the Lewes area.

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  • The judge instructed him to purge himself with the aid of five neighbors, and issued a new monition.

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  • Equitable's managing director confirmed that the sales force had been adequately briefed and instructed to advise potential policyholders of the company's circumstances.

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  • When he went back to the war he was instructed to start making prosthetics for others who had lost limbs.

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  • Hitler instructed Ribbentrop to ignore any fresh protestations of loyalty from Belgrade.

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  • He was instructed to practice self-hypnosis at least once per day.

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  • In the passage of the fiery snakes, Moses is instructed by God to make a bronze serpent and set it on a standard.

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  • If you wish to go further you will need to be instructed by a solicitor or undertake the training of public access.

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  • Moltke drafts german ultimatum to Belgium, sent to Brussels Ambassador (29) to be delivered when instructed.

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  • Therefore, God instructed Moses to challenge all the people to encourage his young understudy.

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  • In regard to the Church, he instructed the prefects strictly to prevent infraction of the law against religious orders.

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  • Bismarck nevertheless continued his press campaign in favor of the temporal power until, reassured by Gambettas decision to send Roustan back to Tunis to complete as minister the anti-Italian programme begun as consul, he finally instructed his organs to emphasize the common interests of Germany and Italy on the occasion of the opening of the St Gothard tunnel.

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  • As a means of asserting their views effectively, the citizens, irrespective of party, organized local silver clubs, and these eventually led to the formation of the Silver party of Nevada, which drafted a " platform " and nominated a state ticket and presidential electors who were instructed to support the Populist national ticket.

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  • Early in 1603 Elizabeth instructed Mountjoy to open negotiations with the rebellious chieftains; and in April, Tyrone, in ignorance of Elizabeth's death, made his submission to Mountjoy.

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  • There's a reason we're instructed to stand with our backs straight and it goes beyond simple appearance.

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  • After they retrieved their luggage, Señor Medena instructed a man to carry it to a white limousine.

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  • I never instructed him to ask you anything.

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  • His voice was gentle as he instructed her.

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  • That was probably why Bordeaux had instructed each of them to take a separate direction.

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  • When he finishes clean-up in Ohio, he's been instructed to count the stalks of wheat in the field outside Speck's farmhouse and not return until he's done, Dusty growled.

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  • You'll be safe, he instructed her.

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  • Fred O'Connor was instructed to call Jake Weller and tell him where they were located, but Dean couldn't wait.

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  • Verify there is a portal through Hell to our underworld, Gabriel instructed Landon.

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  • I've been instructed to show you to your chamber, after which I'll be released.

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  • They were escorted back to their rooms and instructed to stay there until morning, when lessons would resume.

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  • He then instructed his manservant to deliver them.

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  • Sarah and Jackson were instructed to drink from the goblet.

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  • He was instructed to go ahead; there was no need to request an audience.

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  • The quick wrap is easier, he instructed, holding up each of the products as he spoke.

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  • But if it was so, wouldn't he have instructed her?

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  • Holding her head elevated, as Mums had instructed, he offered the bottle.

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  • Then she carefully pulled the rock toward her as he had instructed.

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  • Was he also instructed to provide her with entertainment?

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  • It gives name to a school of gunnery, where officers are instructed and experiments carried out.

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  • He drew up a scheme for the construction of a pier at Madras, to avoid the dangers of landing through the surf, and instructed his brother-in-law in England to obtain estimates from the engineers Brindley and Smeaton.

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  • Her beauty attracted the notice of the decemvir Appius Claudius, who instructed Marcus Claudius, one of his clients, to claim her as his slave.

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  • The judges, in making their awards at the show held annually in December, at Islington, North London (since 1862), are instructed to decide according to quality of flesh, lightness of offal, age and early maturity, with no restrictions as to feeding, and thus to promote the primary aim of the club in encouraging the selection and breeding of the best and most useful animals for the production of meat, and testing their capabilities in respect of early maturity.

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  • This school, of which the origin (though assigned to Athenagoras) is unknown, was the first and for a long time the only institution where Christians were instructed simultaneously in the Greek sciences and the doctrines of the holy Scriptures.

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  • The most convincing proof of this is that Origen (i) takes the idea of the immutability of God as the regulating idea of his system, and (2) deprives the historical "Word made flesh" of all significance for the true Gnostic. To him Christ appears simply as the Logos who is with the Father from eternity, and works from all eternity, to whom alone the instructed Christian directs his thoughts, requiring nothing more than a perfect - i.e.

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  • She instructed her daughter to show a proper respect to her husband's grandfather, Louis XV., by behaving with politeness to his mistresses, in order that the alliance between the two courts might run no risk.

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  • In 1790 the interest was reduced to 3%, and as the treasury had again become exhausted, a further issue was decided upon; it was also decreed that the assignats were to be accepted as legal tender, all public departments being instructed to receive them as the equivalent of metallic money.

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  • Harlan, and John C. Brown, ex-Governor of Tennessee, which was instructed to promote " an acknowledgment of one government within the state."

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  • The objections raised were (i) the costliness of the instruments employed and their liability to get out of order; (2) the need for specially instructed measurers, men of superior education; (3) the errors that frequently crept in when carrying out the processes and were all but irremediable.

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  • His sons were trained for war and the chase, and his daughters instructed in the spinning of wool and other feminine arts.

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  • At the same time American naval officers were instructed to occupy the ports in case of war with Mexico, but first and last to work for the good-will of the natives.

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  • In accordance with this Palmerston instructed Ponsonby to press upon the sultan, in the event of Mehemet Ali's speedy submission, not only to withdraw the sentence of deprivation but to confer upon him the hereditary pashalik of Egypt.

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  • Hitherto the praetor had conducted the preliminary inquiry as to whether an action would lie, and had appointed for the actual trial of the case a deputy, whom he instructed in the law applicable to the case and whose decisions he enforced.

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  • In 1889, after Nasru d-Din Shahs return from his third visit to Europe, the council of state was instructed to compile a code of law for the regulation of justice.

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  • Their children are brought up in company with the princes at the gates of the king, instructed in the handling of arms, in riding and hunting, and introduced to the service of the state and the knowledge of the law, as well as the commandments of religion.

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  • He was a clever and energetic man, and had been instructed to take severe measures with the Afghans, some of whom were suspected of intriguing to restore the city to the Delhi emperor.

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  • Candidates for the rite must have been confirmed, be adequately instructed in the elements of the Christian faith, and be able to read and write.

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  • On the third Sunday in Advent 1329, and afterwards in public consistory, John had preached that the souls of those who have died in a state of grace go into Abraham's bosom, sub altari Dei, and do not enjoy the beatific vision (visio facie ad faciem) of the Lord until after the Last Judgment and the Resurrection; and he had even instructed a Minorite friar, Gauthier of Dijon, to collect the passages in the Fathers which were in favour of this doctrine.

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  • This reverse necessitated fresh operations, and in 1860 Lord Elgin and Baron Gros were directed to return to China, and, at the head of an adequate force, were instructed to exact an apology for the attack on the allied fleets, the ratification and execution of the treaty of Tientsin, and the payment of an indemnity for the expenses of the war.

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  • Gladstone resigned office, and Lord Salisbury, who, after Lord Beaconsfields death, had succeeded to the lead of the Conservative party, was instructed to form a new administration.

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  • As already noticed, the Malagasy owe to missionaries of the London Missionary Society their first school system and their first literature, in 1820 and subsequent years; 1 and for fifteen years all educational work was carried on by them, some 10,000 to 12,000 children having been instructed in their schools.

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  • At last, on the 20th of April 1898, when the Spanish government learned that the United States minister, General Woodford, War with had been instructed by telegraph to present an the United ultimatum demanding the cessation of hostilities Stases.

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  • This demand broke the patience of the prime minister, and on the 30th of July Seor de Ojeda, Spanish ambassador at the Vatican, was instructed to hand in his papers.

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  • The project was known to the Porte, and the rabble, previously armed and instructed, were at once turned loose in the streets.

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  • During the controversy over the Stamp Act the general court instructed the colony's agent in London to insist on " the exclusive right of the colonists to tax themselves, and on the privilege of trial by jury," as rights that could not be surrendered.

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  • It was after this that he was instructed to present to Bismarck French demands for "compensation," and in August, after his return to Berlin, as a result of his discussions with Bismarck a draft treaty was drawn up, in which Prussia promised France her support in the annexation of Belgium.

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  • In July 1870, when the candidature of the prince of Hohenzollern for the throne of Spain became known, Benedetti was instructed by the duc de Gramont to present to the king of Prussia, who was then at Ems, the French demands, that the king should order the prince to withdraw, and afterwards that the king should promise that the candidature would never be renewed.

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  • Stepan Stepanych also instructed me how I ought to tell of my experiences.

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  • I'll spare you the details, but our judge doesn't like hired guns from out of town and he doesn't like being instructed in the law.

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  • The clerics preached and instructed the people, working chiefly among the poor; they also devoted themselves to the copying of manuscripts, in order thereby to earn something for the common fund; and some of them taught in the schools.

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