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• v  impart skills or knowledge to
  He instructed me in building a boat
• v  give instructions or directions for some task
  She instructed the students to work on their pronunciation
• v  make aware of

• The goal was both to instruct and protect.
• A new highway bill pending before Congress would instruct all 50 states to require all motorists convicted of driving under the influence to equip their cars with interlock systems .
• Only after the Jews of Medina rejected Muhammad did he switch orientation and instruct his adherents to pray facing Mecca, whose ancient shrine, the Kabah, was thought by locals to .

• teach
• learn
• apprise
• apprize

News & Articles

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• Kenner police: Two drunk women instruct 10-year-old to drive them
  Kenner police says two intoxicated women instructed a 10-year-old to drive.
  June 12, 2013 - WDSU New Orleans
• Supreme Court DNA ruling endangers basic rights (Other Views)
  Every time judges instruct juries in criminal cases, they caution jurors to be wary that simply because a person has been arrested does not mean that the person committed the crime, that the fact that the person stands before them accused of malfeasance is not evidence.
  June 12, 2013 - The Troy Record
• OPINION: Supreme Court DNA ruling endangers basic rights
  Every time judges instruct juries in criminal cases, they caution jurors to be wary that simply because a person has been arrested does not mean that the person committed the crime, that the fact that the person stands before them accused of malfeasance is not evidence.
  June 12, 2013 - The Oakland Press

Quotes

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• Ben Bernanke in CNNMoney.com
  Moreover, I did not instruct anyone to indicate to Bank of America that the Federal Reserve would take any particular action under those circumstances,Bernanke said.
• Gordon Brown in Reuters South Africa
  On our part, there was no conspiracy, no cover-up, no double-dealing, no deal on oil, no attempt to instruct Scottish ministers, no private assurances by me to (Libyan leader) Colonel (Muammar) Gaddafi,Brown said at an employment summit in...
• Michael Ovitz in International Herald Tribune
  I assume whatever he did, he did legally. I would never instruct him to do anything illegal,Ovitz said.