6 sentences with 'instructed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word instructed and other words derived from it.
• « Throughout Europe, missionaries were officially instructed not to fight pagan religious practice, but to subtly reform it. It was less important that pagans understand the nuances of Christianity and more important that they accept its essential truth. »
• « When Lisa gave birth for the fourth time, on January 6, 1989, I booked a plane ticket to Iowa to meet the baby. "Give her a kiss for me," Milt instructed me, lying in a hospital bed. »
• « North stated that Casey had instructed him to work with Secord and set up "the company", and that he agreed to Secord and Hakim setting their own commissions. If true, Abrams notes, this would contrast with the rest of his record as CIA director. Casey organised covert operations around the world, but "there is no evidence of anything like this in Angola, Afghanistan, or anywhere else". »
• « Soon after, she instructed her husband to shop at the supermarket for the items she thought a struggling family might need most urgently. »
• « We were instructed not to distract the inmates from their work - so engrossed did they seem to be in their lathes and sewing machines. »
• « Jefferson instructed Robert Livingston, the US envoy to France, to secure access to New Orleans, sending James Monroe to France to add further pressure. »