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Example sentences for: commandment

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But there are other, better ways of transmitting the official White House line, contend Ann McDaniel (CBS's Face the Nation ) and George Stephanopoulos (ABC's This Week ). Stephanopoulos argues that the White House would not needlessly admit the existence of presidential love gifts, thereby undermining the Story of the Seventh Commandment that it is peddling.
Allow me a short digression on the commandment against killing to illustrate the phenomenon of a text that carries one meaning on its surface and a more radical meaning beneath.
Once again, the analogy with the commandment against killing (or murder) proves instructive.
Was the punishment particularly harsh because the affair reminded everyone, including the King himself, that his Majesty behaved according to the “Revised” Commandment?
"I propose a new 12th Commandment," he says, playing off Reagan's 11th--Thou shalt not criticize a fellow Republican.