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Instructed in sentence

128 examples of Instructed in a sentence

I went to the United Nations as an ambassador, and it was after the Gulf War, and I was an instructed ambassador.
They had met the great man; they had been instructed by the great man; they had an enormous amount of fun having their faces shoved in the mud ...
Now my diplomats are instructed to talk to all these groups.
For the footnote panel in this work, this office instructed me to photograph their central television tower in Beijing.
Amazingly, Entropica was able to pass multiple animal intelligence tests, play human games, and even earn money trading stocks, all without being instructed to do so.
And the teacher had already instructed her to stay out of the boys' bathroom.
A study on competitive golfers compared their performance when instructed to simply focus on putting as accurately as possible, versus when they were primed to be acutely aware of the mechanics of their putting stroke.
Such a system would have been trained on previous employees' data and instructed to find and hire people like the existing high performers in the company.
A teacher once instructed me in the hallway: "Aaaaaas-king."
Once input into the central computer, the factory will reassemble itself as instructed.
And you're either instructed to go to the right of the room or the left side of the room.
Noah builds an ark as instructed by God to house he, his family, and two of every creature while he floods the rest of the planet.
For that exact same reason, the cast members are seemingly also instructed to overact tremendously and talk with talk with atrocious accents.
His work there had instructed me as to his genius, so when 'Hospital' appeared on TMC, I was anxious to see it.
When on the runway (perfectly straight of course) she is instructed to pull on the flaps, HUH!! Come on flaps are there to ensure lift at low speeds, when on the runway you use thrust reverse on the engines and give maximum power!
These teenage guys are instructed in religion by a sinister young priest, who enjoys tormenting and comforting them simultaneously.
As others have noted, this should have been an excellent Hammer-style film, and it seems to me that that's how most of the actors were instructed to play it... but the screenplay is so leaden, poorly paced, and filled with a lot of dull soliloquies (poor Timothy Dalton is saddled with most of them) that it's all too overblown and self-important.
Irving Klaw(Dukey Flyswatter)at his Movie Star News instructed Betty on what to do in front of the camera.
As the prisoners are put to work fixing the place up, they're instructed to break into the old execution room.
From Charles Lang being instructed to "put his shadows wherever he wanted, but not on the actors face" to David Lynch and Frederick Elmes discussing "how dark is dark", the art of cinematography is just as much about being an illusionist as just a mediator between production and aspection.
Her older sister instructed her on how to cry during the film, suggesting that she recall a ghastly accident she had witnessed involving her dog being hit by a car.
To me it seems as if this film is being instructed by two VERY different directors, because the depiction of Alabama population in the last 2/3 of the movie reminds me most of all of cartoon characters rather then actual homo sapiens.
I have trained un-broken horses and instructed young riders for a few years.
The moral of the tale is not, as Polonius instructed his son Laertes, “neither a borrower nor a lender be.”
Mothers tell little girls to "attend" their brothers, while little boys are instructed to "watch over" their sisters.
Populists Are Sometimes RightDeveloping countries are often advised (or instructed) to undertake reforms recommended by "experts" who are called "technocrats" and are often backed by the IMF.
This time, he has instructed a committee of historians to reexamine the official apology delivered in 1993 to World War II-era sex slaves held in Japanese military brothels.
The Party and people should faithfully follow whatever Mao instructed them to do.
Our small group of woman cadets at the PAF training academy was instructed to maintain strict boundaries with the men with whom we would serve.
He instructed ministers not to discuss the matter publicly and suggested that talks not be left in the hands of the Nato machinery alone.
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