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"commandment" Definitions
  1. a law given by God, especially any of the Ten Commandments given to the Jews in the Bible

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There isn't necessarily a reason for the commandment — the commandment is the reason.
Now that's the first commandment, the second commandment and so on from Silicon Valley.
There is a sub-commandment in this lesson — call it Commandment 3.5: Directors can and should sometimes replace themselves.
Traditionally 13-year-old boys celebrate becoming bar mitzvahs (meaning "sons of commandment") and 12- or 13-year-old girls celebrate becoming bat mitzvahs ("daughters of commandment").
A: Sex has always been a divine commandment in Judaism.
There was always a commandment to be fruitful and multiply.
A final commandment helps technologists choose which technologies to pursue.
Now it's a core principle, almost a commandment at Blue.
" What the church considers a commandment becomes a mere "ideal.
His first commandment is to get your financial house in order.
His 21105 Commandment was not to speak ill of another Republican.
Tits or GTFO is the second commandment of the male internet.
In fact, some view it as a commandment of their faith.
A light snack before bed "is acceptable," according to the commandment.
Joseph Stalin, however, was not one for obeying anyone else's commandment.
But he follows the 11th commandment of CCM: Stay away from politics.
The day gets it name from the Latin word "mandatum," meaning commandment.
This is my commandment: love one another as I have loved you.
Therefore, the first commandment for technologists is: Design technologies to swell happiness.
"There's a commandment against the lying," Scarborough said later in the conversation.
I can't say that's a commandment, exactly, but it's rather good advice.
The year had barely begun when the commandment came from on high.
In my opinion, Jesus' one commandment is way better than the original 10.
Name changes have consequences, especially when they are delivered as a divine commandment.
Such a statement from the sport's biggest names was akin to a commandment.
But the two-mandates commandment, central to the party's anti-establishment character, has held.
They see it is a commandment from God that must be obeyed as is.
Hearing the shofar is a mitzvah, or divine commandment, for all adult Jewish men.
We often preach the first beauty commandment, Thou Shalt Not Go To Bed Wearing Makeup.
Here is the commandment that experience teaches us: Immorality usually bites you in the ass.
Nothing in the Fourth Commandment identifies which day of the week should be the Sabbath.
Reagan said famously that the 11th Commandment was to not speak ill of other Republicans.
But under the Eleventh Commandment, it does matter if your testimony is true or false.
Alas, he will not heed Bolívar's second commandment: to "right the wrongs that lead to errors".
What to wear Remember the old commandment that thou shall not wear white after Labor Day?
When "Don't touch the trophy" went from suggestion to commandment, any fun drained out of it.
Priests for years had sanctified forests by proclaiming a zapoved, or commandment: Thou shalt not cut.
What to wear Remember the old commandment that thou shall not wear white after Labor Day?
He then consults his son, and they together decide that this is a commandment from God.
Thus, the third commandment for technologists: The best technologies have utility but also provide fresh scientific insights.
He was particularly intrigued by a illustration of the Sixth Commandment, showing Cain murdering his brother Abel.
Representative Ted Lieu of California also denounced the statement, pointing to Scripture's commandment to love your neighbor.
Yet we are also commanded to put the preservation of human life above every other religious commandment.
Germany's Reinheitsgebot, or "purity commandment" is one of the world's oldest food safety laws on the planet.
While in certain other denominations it is the Sixth Commandment, in the Catholic Church it is the Fifth.
The first commandment in speechmaking and delivery is not to lose your reader or listener along the way.
" The marathon, Robbins writes, runs "counter to the Hasidic community's strict interpretation of the commandment of tznuit, modesty.
Such manger larceny, in glaring violation of the Eighth Commandment, is also part of a sad national trend.
This is the first and great commandment and the second is like it: love your neighbor as yourself.
This grow-or-die commandment poses enormous difficulties and burdens on museums and the people who love them.
Like all mortal sins, the violation of the Eleventh Commandment comes with not just eternal but immediate damnation.
For instance, under the Ninth Commandment, you are only guilty if you give false evidence against your neighbor.
Through history, the commandment to act with empathy has been more honored in the breach than in the observance.
But by the same measure, the first commandment for any commercially viable brand is always to know thy customer.
"Evangelicals still believe in the commandment, Thou shall not have sex with a porn star", he told Fox News.
And as such, it's basically a commandment that she must change up her look on a semi-regular basis.
"Paige Patterson and others like him believe that Genesis 3:16 is a commandment, not a curse," he explained.
Ibrahim, the prophet who, following God's commandment, left his wife, Hajar, and their son Ismail in the Arabian desert.
Mr. Jeffs and the other defendants made participation in the scheme something akin to a religious commandment, prosecutors said.
So this commandment is really about giving a God a chance to flex his muscles every once in awhile.
A mitzvah is really a commandment, just like tzedakah — often translated as "charity" — is really an obligation to give.
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 Ronald Reagan always claimed to abide by a mythical Eleventh Commandment: "Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican.
He has publicly said he is "proud" of having carried out "God's commandment" in executing thousands of political opponents.
If there is one rule of politics, one unbreakable commandment, it is this: Thou shalt never blame the voters.
The commandment "THOU SHALT NOT KILL" appears at one point, followed by the death toll from recent mass killings.
In Chapter 15, Jesus talks about the joy that can be found in faith from keeping a very important commandment.
This was met with a bombardment of mock disgust and the commandment to download Chess Time or leave Pancake Day.
Sean Rameswaram: Commandment 4 is my favorite yet, not going to do God voice because I liked it so much.
Considering the Mosaic commandment not to murder, the central question for Christians regarding abortion revolves around the beginning of life.
Every past races says that's the No. 1 commandment, but it just goes to show anything can happen on the race.
President Reagan, a grandmaster in the art of winning elections, declared his 11th Commandment that Republicans should not attack other Republicans.
Her head is subsequently removed and placed on a mantle, the final jewel in the crown completing the Ten Commandment Killings.
The Democratic Party needs an 11th Commandment of its own, and those who choose to sin against it should be ostracized.
"A commandment, a privilege, a burden, an opportunity, a fashion statement and a test of faith," she says of the wigs.
We hear Johansson singing—or, to be exact, melodiously breathing—"Trust in Me," which is not a commandment to be disobeyed.
What is most striking about this commandment is that it does not matter if your testimony is made in good faith.
Yet the trees and plants and the beasts of the earth also fruitfully multiply without having received any special blessing or commandment.
It wasn't too long ago that Republicans lived by Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment: Thou shall not speak ill of a fellow Republican.
We went to war with ourselves, our own bodies, and our own sexual natures, all under the strict commandment of the church.
But, cheerfully and despondently, comically and tragically, reverently and heretically, he breaks—because he must be free to break—Fackenheim's fearful commandment.
The website Vigilant Citizen takes it a step further, suggesting that the shop tops each Commandment-defying cone with a dash of Satanism.
But one commandment, one kernel of a logical response, seems to be expressed by all who have lived through the horror: Never forget.
But at a Baptist convention in Kansas City, Missouri, Clinton said that she has been trying to follow Christ's commandment to love her enemies.
NBC News reports the pontiff explained the commandment "You shall not kill" was absolute and equally valid for the guilty as for the innocent.
In the realm of political expedience, even those wanting to legislate religious principles find the Ninth Commandment, thou shalt not bear false witness, negotiable.
Although they insist the book lacks religious elements, some chapters, most notably "Honor and Help Your Parents," are straight-up Ten Commandment rip-offs.
The first commandment of real estate is, "Save all old records" (you might get sued someday and want to prove you're the good guy).
They bow before the Second Amendment and reject God's Second Commandment in Exodus 20:4-5: You shall have no other gods before me.
Some rules were made to be broken, and we're more than happy to disobey the unwritten, "thou shalt not wear white after Labor Day," commandment.
I can only vaguely remember parables, and I'm hazy on disciples' names, but our Lord's greatest commandment—to love as he loved—sticks with me.
By adopting President Reagan's 11th Commandment — "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican" — Kasich has remained focused on the issues that worry Americans.
I couldn't summon the will, and the very effort seemed like a violation of my guides' first commandment, which was to surrender to the experience.
But contradicting the famous ban on graven images in the Second Commandment, in this painting God explicitly demands the creation of a work of art.
Donald Trump, who has broken God's commandment regarding false witness thousands of times, can attend the annual prayer breakfast and make gains in both realms.
He focused on how his mantra of "less, but better" was not just an aesthetic commandment but one intended to reduce consumption across the board.
It's this child that goes on to populate the human line and that allows the first parents to fulfill God's commandment to be fruitful and multiply.
Secularism is poorly equipped to deal with religious passion, Mr. Moore argues, especially with radical Islam, which believes that spreading Islam is a commandment from Allah.
The so-called Eleventh Commandment popularized by President Ronald Reagan, which declared that "thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican," seemed destined for history.
Responding to criticism, Sessions on Thursday evoked Apostle Paul's commandment to "obey the laws of the government because God has ordained them for the purpose of order."
" Despite unending respect for Mencken, this is an occasion in which I found him mistaken, after I violated the Eleventh Commandment, "Thou shalt not testify for Republicans.
Unlike Wells Fargo, which violated an original bank commandment — to keep depositors' money safe — Facebook's raison d'etre is sharing, not privacy, and its platforms still dominate this market.
Although the iPhone commandment reads something like "thou shalt always be an S, and only an S, in betwixt two new iPhones," things might be changing for 2016.
Who the fuck are you to be so smug as to think your stupid band name is like a commandment from God that we should all just recognize?
She noted that in the Roman Catholic tradition, usury is thought to break the commandment "thou shalt not kill" because its impoverishing effects can deprive people of life.
Commandment 3 is if you feel sick, any member of your household feels sick, or if you feel like you've been exposed to this virus, please stay home.
Recall that "ape not kill ape" is the political and moral foundation of ape civilization, handed down by Caesar, their Moses, though he hasn't always obeyed this commandment.
He still got the endorsement of Jerry Falwell, Jr. ("In my opinion, Donald Trump lives a life of loving and helping others as Jesus taught in the great commandment").
The album's Ten Commandment-like instructional format sounds a lot like the empowerment narratives of modern artists like Lizzo and Megan Thee Stallion, illustrating its impact for future generations.
At its most open-minded, he was the Old Testament patriarch glittering in a leotard and cravat—gleefully shattering every commandment on Saturday night, soulfully repenting every Sunday morning.
I'm going to try," Trump told evangelical leader Pat Robertson during an interview that aired Tuesday on "The 700 Club," when asked whether he'd abide by the "11th Commandment.
As the 2018 midterms approach, Democratic leaders should adopt a 12th Commandment, that Democrats should not attack other Democrats in efforts to win control of the House and Senate.
Jews have various ways of observing this commandment — or not — but you will be hard pressed to find anyone using a cellphone in a synagogue during a Shabbat service.
"I believe in the Ten Commandments, but I practice an eleventh commandment: Thou shalt not pour cold water on another person's dream," Clyburn told BuzzFeed News in an interview.
"The Sixth Commandment is you don't commit adultery, and you don't want to do anything that would jeopardize that," said Ms. McCafferty, a mental health caregiver in Appleton, Wis.
The Republican hierarchy should remember Ronald Reagan's 11th Commandment — Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican — and shut their mouths and back the Republican candidate, whoever he is.
There's a lot of evil shit in the world—sexual assault, bullying, police officers who refuse to dance while directing traffic—so Commandment Number VII is sort of a catchall.
It assumes that the baseball fans of the future will be unable to form their own individual opinions on the matter—all because these players violated a commandment of baseball.
Mr. Benjamin was hired as headmaster of the school, which describes itself as "anchored in the Judeo-Christian commandment to Love God and Your Neighbor as Yourself," in February 2013.
In violating Reagan's "11th Commandment" not to speak ill of others in his party, Needham has come to rival Ted Cruz as one of the least popular Republicans in Washington.
If there were an 11th Commandment, it would insist that while honoring thy mother and father is all well and good, at the end of the day, they're not Mallomars.
"Love thy neighbor" was cited more than once, and by both sides: It was seen as both a commandment to embrace all peoples and to defend one's actual neighbors from harm.
Anxious reminders by the Catholic Church of the commandment 'thou shalt not kill' make few headlines in the predominantly Catholic country, with newspapers preferring to carry breathless accounts of the latest slayings.
" Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons, a fellow for the Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative at the Center for American Progress, said Trump "seemed to be very bothered by Jesus's commandment to 'love our enemies.
" I guess he was invoking the little-known 11th Commandment, which says, "On the other hand, thou shalt excuse stuff like killing and bearing false witness if weapons deals are at stake.
Unlike the Bible, in which Abraham receives an explicit commandment from God to sacrifice Isaac, the Abraham of the Quran only has a dream in which he sees himself sacrificing his son.
And they've transformed primary season into a reality show of insults, betrayals and open feuds, defying the so-called 11th Commandment that Reagan espoused: Thou shall not speak ill of any fellow Republican.
She occasionally makes degrading remarks about other women that a "good feminist" shouldn't make, but even this behavior seems like a feminist response to the patriarchal commandment that women must always be polite.
One of efforts, she said, is to explain to people that FGM is a tradition picked up from African countries across the Nile Valley -- not a religious commandment as some Muslims and Christians believe.
His most fêted works, " The Wages of Fear " (1953) and " Les Diaboliques " (1955), lay in the future, but his loveless commandment was already carved in stone: Thou shalt hate thy neighbor as thyself. ♦
The first divine commandment voiced in Genesis instructs man to "be fruitful and multiply"; it's the reason for both the prodigious numbers of children in ultra-­Orthodox families and for Israel's liberal fertility laws.
Banners stating the commandment were displayed in churches all around the capital — where nightly, it seemed, corpses of drug suspects were being found in the streets, hands bound or heads wrapped in packing tape.
A commandment in Exodus and Deuteronomy not to cook a young goat in its mother's milk became, in modern times, an insistence on separate dishes, cutlery, sinks and dishwashers for meat and milk products.
James refused to accept anything less than the max when he went back to Cleveland in 2014, but that might've been more about his frosty relationship with Cavs owner Dan Gilbert than an unbreakable commandment.
An article in some editions last Sunday that featured the Basilica of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral in Manhattan, where a scene from "The Godfather" takes place, misstated the number of the Commandment that prohibits killing.
Poor can't-keep-his-betrothed-from-his-Goomah-shit-straight Ghanaian striker Mohammed Anas completely botched the "never these two paths shall cross" commandment, in spectacular fashion, and is totally in Dutch with the wife.
"The sixth commandment forbids all impurity and immodesty in words, looks and actions," was admonition No. 256 in the Baltimore Catechism, the standard text used to teach the faith from 1885 to the late 1960s.
On the third day of the hajj, pilgrims throw rocks at three stone pillars near Jamarat Bridge in a re-enactment of Ibrahim (or Abraham) stoning the devil as he tries to follow God's commandment.
METROPOLITAN An article in some editions last Sunday that featured the Basilica of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral in Manhattan, where a scene from "The Godfather" takes place, misstated the number of the Commandment that prohibits killing.
Anti-climactic. He played all the old favorites—a little bit of blood-and-soil, some exaggerated claims about the Johnson Amendment, a dash of persecution complex—and then proceeded to repeatedly violate the Ninth Commandment.
He made his name as a judge by showing contempt for the rule of law: refusing court orders to remove a Ten Commandment monument outside his courthouse and rejecting the Supreme Court decision on marriage equality.
The foundation of Share the Journey is the basic ethical commandment of treating our neighbor as we would want them to treat us, exactly what we saw so many people doing when Hurricanes Harvey and Irma struck.
I am about to appeal to the First Commandment of Modernism — "Less Is More" — but I have the suspicion that Mies van der Rohe is probably too busy turning over in his grave to hear my prayers.
In Evangelii Gaudium (53) he emphasizes how all issues involving human life are interdependent and that the commandment "thou shall not kill" applies to our culture's "economy of exclusion" which leads to the death of human beings.
But as the medieval ages gave way to the modern age, there was a shift: "The move after the Middle Ages is to go from virtue/vice talk altogether to more 'commandment' language," as DeYoung put it.
Sparks co-founded the Epiphany School of Global Studies in New Bern, North Carolina in 2006, as an institution "anchored in the Judeo-Christian commandment to Love God and Your Neighbor as Yourself," according to its mission statement.
How is his commandment to "get much tougher on drug dealers and pushers" to fight opioids supposed to square with criminal justice reform, and is Attorney General Jeff Sessions going to stand for any kind of reform anyway?
"Historically, American evangelicals, in particular, have tended to be pioneers of religious media, from radio programs like Charles Fuller's Old-Fashioned Revival Hour to TV programs like The 700 Club, to films like The Great Commandment," Draper says.
Because he's been so memorable for so long, and because of the decade-and-change effort to brand him—the chain of nicknames, "this is my house," the "fall down seven times, stand up eight" commandment—this has been easy.
Students have also been influenced by the business world's commandment, disseminated through advertisements and TED talks and books by so-called thought leaders, to do whatever you do "at scale," which is where the "millions of people" thing came from.
They pooled their Social Security checks — my great-grandfather's from his years as a building superintendent in New York City, my grandmother's from her short work life after divorcing her Never-Mind-the-Seventh-Commandment minister husband, Aunt Emily's disability payments.
The Haggadah was designed to fulfill the biblical commandment to teach our children about the Israelites' liberation from slavery in Egypt, and it goes about this task with a kind of wisdom and compassion I hope to maintain year-round.
A few days earlier, as the month of Ramadan was coming to an end, almost 3,000 Islamic scholars convened in Kabul and issued a fatwa reminding us that the quest for peace is a commandment of Allah and a national imperative.
The best-selling romance novelist, 53, co-founded the Epiphany School of Global Studies in New Bern, North Carolina in 2006, as an institution "anchored in the Judeo-Christian commandment to Love God and Your Neighbor as Yourself," according to its mission statement.
Traditionally on Shabbat, a designated day of rest, observant Jews hold firm to the commandment "remember the Sabbath and keep it holy," which precludes them from performing any kind of work, including driving, voting, pulling a lever, or writing until after sundown Saturday.
Hurston's "Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940" (like "We Work Again," available only on the Blu-ray set) is a remarkable recording of Gullah religious practices, but in a sense all of the material in this collection has a documentary aspect.
Both "Commandment Keeper Church" and the Gists' sermons provide a context for "The Blood of Jesus" (1941), Williams's best-known film and by some accounts the most successful race movie ever made, screened for years in church basements and black-only theaters.
Romney cast the coming months' elections as a crucial moment in history, citing Ronald Reagan and saying that this nominating contest is "a time for choosing" -- laying waste along the way to Reagan's fabled "11th Commandment" that Republicans not speak ill of other Republicans.
Israel Adesanya and others have found that a fighter can bring his opponent off balance and open more opportunities to counter-strike just by sticking to the boxing commandment of never taking two steps straight back but always cutting an angle on the second step.
We've all been guilt shamed into thinking that something in the Australian psyche is ugly and that mixed with alcohol we turn into raging brutes or that by simply having fun somehow we've been breaking some great moral code, the eleventh commandment: thou shalt not have fun.
"Our bride hates tacky shit," one of the attendees told me, right before they hopped on a foot-powered Pedal Tavern, where they'd spend the next two hours pedaling around downtown and obeying the commandment to chug every time someone on the street took a picture.
Rabbi Weiss reiterated the commandment that children must be removed from danger, and Rabbi Sternbuch cited the principle of pikuach nefesh, which holds that, to save a life or prevent permanent organ damage, any transgression against Jewish law other than idolatry, incest or murder is permitted.
Theron and Rogen spar with ease, not least because their characters share a full set of pop-cultural references, thus obeying the first commandment of modern love: when two souls jump for joy at the mention of Boyz II Men, two hearts shall beat as one.
As this phone call with Stan confirms, he recognizes and is willing to hold up his part of the bargain that landed him and his family safe in another country, and he isn't going to risk that, his personal feelings on the Jenningses and the Ninth Commandment be damned.
Time and time again, security specialists have been nailing it into our heads the number one commandment of the digital age: change your passwords as frequently as seasons change, and make them sophisticated enough that they're unhackable but straightforward enough that you can still commit them to memory.
Nonetheless, the weaker version suggests a second commandment for technologists: In regulating new technologies, balance costs and benefits, and work with your fellow citizens, your nation's lawmakers, and the world's diplomats to enact reasonable laws that limit the potential damage of a new technology, as further evidence is forthcoming.
These policy decisions do not reflect our values or the values of more than 30 million Americans represented by Church World Service and its members--who wish to live out their faith by sharing their freedom with refugee families and obeying the commandment to love thy neighbor as thyself.
This is an implicit recognition of the Christian Sabbath, commemorating the Creator's sanctification of the seventh day for rest (Genesis 22019:1-3), the fourth commandment that the Sabbath be kept free from secular defilement (Exodus 20:8-11), and, in the Christian tradition, the resurrection of Jesus from the dead.
"My study of the Bible, my many conversations with people of faith, has led me to believe the most important commandment is to love the Lord with all your might and to love your neighbor as yourself, and that is what I think we are commanded by Christ to do," she said.
Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE says he will "try" to honor Ronald Reagan's 11th Commandment and not "speak ill" of fellow Republicans.
But on September 8th, the Democratic presidential nominee gave a speech to the National Baptist Convention that was peppered with quotations from the Bible and personal reminiscences: the gruff father who prayed by his bed every night, the mother who taught Sunday school, and Mrs Clinton's own occasional difficulty obeying the commandment to love.
" Asked whether that contrasts with many of Mr. Trump's statements during the campaign, he said, "There is a difference in the world of politics and the world of church, and in the world of church, we are compelled by Jesus's commandment — it wasn't a suggestion or a request — it was, I command that you love one another.
They were careful how they said it, careful to stress that what had happened was inherently tied to the most inviolable thing in the whole of this country's history, the self-evident commandment without which they were honestly, religiously certain the whole of civilization would fall apart: that a free man, threatened, is allowed to stand his ground.
One of the things I do is teach students how to write these Twitter bots, and one year a group of students wrote this bot called Honor My Parents, which looks for tweets by what they assumed were teenagers who were saying, "I hate my mom, I hate my dad, I hate my parents," and would reply to them with the text of the Fifth Commandment.
My study of the Bible, my many conversations with people of faith, has led me to believe the most important commandment is to love the Lord with all your might and to love your neighbor as yourself, and that is what I think we are commanded by Christ to do, and there is so much more in the Bible about taking care of the poor, visiting the prisoners, taking in the stranger, creating opportunities for others to be lifted up, to find faith themselves that I think there are many different ways of exercising your faith.

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