Admonitions

To act against their admonitions is to risk excommunication and possibly damnation. ❋ Unknown (1999)

To the censure of Collier, whose remarks may be rather termed admonitions than criticisms, he makes little reply; being, at the age of sixty-eight, attentive to better things than the claps of a playhouse. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

But Moses, if we may credit reports, was something far more inspired and illumined than a mere physical culturist -- commendable as is personal cleanliness -- and his admonitions were the result of that fine sense of discrimination and enlightenment which comes from cosmic perception even if he had not experienced the deeper, fuller realization of liberation, of which Buddha is a shining example. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Several hundred voices were calling admonitions, promises, farewells. ❋ Biggers, Earl Derr, 1884-1933 (1925)

She did not deny that she loved him, but perhaps Gaetano would not be able to find the words of love, they were so buried in admonitions. ❋ Unknown (1915)

Coach Wooden's words of wisdom are old-fashioned and homespun; they're the kind of admonitions we remember our grandparents giving us. ❋ Mary Daily (2010)

My efforts to cover Communist Europe from Warsaw met with indifferent success and brought admonitions from the Polish Foreign Ministry that, much as the presence of CBS in Warsaw was appreciated, reporting from there on other socialist countries might disturb Poland’s relations with these countries. ❋ Daniel Schorr (2001)

Robert Gibbs, Mr Obama's spokesman, said that there were "admonitions" to be taken from the case of al-Shihri, but that the President had confidence in the process he had put in place to evaluate the prisoners. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Young Paytir Wylsynn, the former Inquisition Intendant of Charis whose interview of Merlin was so memorable in volume one and who now currently occupies a similar position under the leader of the reformed Church, Archbishop Maikel, and former Bishop Executor of Charis Zherald Ahdymsyn whose relatively mild "admonitions" of Maikel for sedition were another fun part of volume one and who is now a "roving troubleshooter" Bishop of the reformed Church are two of my most favorite characters who reappear quite memorably here. ❋ Liviu (2010)

But how powerful were these admonitions against sex? ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

It seems when Labour is mentioned, it is as the object of admonitions Labour must do this or that, whereas recent Lib Dem disasters seem not to be their fault. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I ` m old enough and honest enough to know that although I am a failure at most things, I may be able to respond to his admonitions without skepticism and with hope. ❋ Unknown (2009)

All the farewells and final admonitions had been made. ❋ Blue Tyson (2010)

Meanwhile, the majority of Christians are stuck in the middle, frozen in their fears, perhaps replaying the pulpit admonitions they heard as children but resisting deeper reflection. ❋ Christine Wicker (2010)

If we were to take Jesus seriously about his admonitions to reach out to the sick and the prisoners, the naked and the hungry, the widows and orphans, we would find out more fully what this can mean to us ultimately. ❋ Rev. Peter M. Wallace (2011)

[The judge]’s admonition to the [jury] on this point was particularly [weighty] ❋ (2022)