Phrase info Synonyms

to order

Speech parts

1. to order - Adverb

2. to order - Phrase

Meaning

to specification

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It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life-to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity. Archibald MacLeish

All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate. Vera Brittain

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order. Virginia Woolf

It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous. Aldous Huxley

Mr. President, call the toady of American imperialism to order. Nikita Khrushchev

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