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Sentence Examples However, none of the printing press managements seem to have chosen to obey this directive. If you don't obey the higher law of prudence by watching your step on an icy day, you will be compelled to obey the lower law of gravity. She is well behaved and will sit and give you her paw as well as obey basic commands. It is in this light that Romans 13 adjures people to obey the powers that be. A decline in party discipline and of members' willingness to obey the whips, is one means of restoring influence to the backbenchers. We can take the Middle Path and preserve our freedom without acting like stubborn and willful children every time we are asked to obey the rules. We are expected to obey all these regulations all I ask is we are aided and assisted by the police and Highways Department. However the department has rebuffed calls to criminalise those who refuse to obey the law. Notwithstanding superficial Western reportage and alarmist propaganda by Arab Sunnis, Arab Shias do not obey the commands of Iranian Shias. Saying that humans, being creatures of flesh, could not obey the law was to say, in effect, that God made a bad job of creating them. The two on the side were regular rookies, they'll cower upon orders and fail to obey when it really counts. How else can you describe an all-powerful king who goes so far as to let his creation choose whether to obey him or not? Do you really believe the Republican majority in the House and Senate would obey this radical leftist? Eighty-two were charged with misdemeanors for failing to obey a traffic officer and blocking a roadway. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders conflict with the first law. Now, I would expect that these lookers-on pay their taxes on time, mow their lawns, put out the garbage, and obey the law. Cmdr Orchard said he was trying to get the message across that people need to slow down and obey the rules of the road. Well done to all the motorists who obey the rules of the road to the letter of the law. Neurological examination 48 hours later showed that he was conscious and able to obey commands but profoundly weak. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. Show More Sentences When a political authority issues a command and the subject has a duty to obey, what is the nature of this duty? Magnetized patients might be impervious to pain, obey the magnetizer's suggestions, or display abnormal abilities. What unites the tyrannical of this world is the human instinct to obey, and to conform, an instinct malignly exploited by evil leaders. It does not obey the law of conservation of mass since the reactants and products have different compositions of elements. The athletes who take drugs to gain a secret advantage over those who obey the rules are cheats and scoundrels. Warfare, whether small-scale or large-scale, does not follow neat timelines nor obey the sensibilities of scriptwriters. They're cantankerous and cussed and refuse to obey the rules, but they're like naughty schoolboys enjoying a second childhood. Michaels barked, pounding out crisp sharp words that so thundered with command that even the untrained and deaf would jump to obey. Being disruptive, refusing to obey orders, and engaging in acts of self-mutilation and attempted suicide can all result in punitive action. Peaceful will be executed by a firing squad for cowardice because he refused to obey an order that sent the rest of his unit to their deaths. One horse is biddable and can learn to obey commands, but the other is both deaf and violent, and so can be controlled only by force. Nebraska State Patrol troopers drove chase cars parallel to the train to stop motorists who didn't obey traffic laws at rail crossings. Unless one believes that there is an absolute obligation to obey every law, moral duty and legal duty will sometimes come into conflict. Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as you obey Christ. Yes, we can all sail our boats along the surface of the water, so long as we obey federal regulations regarding navigation. The pope urged our small band of Loyola University undergrads to study hard and obey our parents. She is harsh and undutiful to him, and her servants either refuse to obey his orders or pretend that they did not hear them. Drive safely this Easter holiday, obey the rules of the road, try not to travel in the dark, take a break often if you're on a long drive, and most importantly buckle up! While it's a necessity to educate and encourage drivers of vehicles to obey the rules of the road, I wish the campaign would include the inconsiderate pedestrian. The head of state is responsible to his people and must obey the law. Show More Sentences They are bound to obey unconditionally the captain's orders. The Massachusetts draftees then resorted to the silent but effective nonviolent resistance of mass desertions, refusal to obey the hated officers, and going on sick call. The soldiers are put through back-breaking training sessions and mindless tasks like polishing boots to teach them to obey orders without question. I really want to just obey my own impulses when the camera's rolling. In terms of organized protests heading off campus, they would have to obey singaporean laws. Jesus Christ, as he is testified to us in the Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God, whom we are to hear, whom we are to trust and obey in life and in death. I get along with my mom and I obey her, but I'm not a mama's boy. He had taught them about Nietzsche and his philosophy of the overman, a superior man who did not have to obey conventions and morals made for inferiors. Those advocating justice should first obey the rule of law themselves. It was both the doctrine of the apostles, and the practice of the church, while it was symmetral, to obey the magistrate. Fatima and Aisha have little choice but to obey their husbands. In a lengthy missive dispatched the next afternoon, Wheeler ticked off a laundry list of reasons why he could not obey Bragg's order. They enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong and establish prayer and give zakah and obey Allah and His Messenger. I continue to live here, work here, pay the taxes and obey the law. The police condemn them and argue that drivers should obey speed limits at all times, not merely when a device senses a radar trap. Dave Sewell I obey speed limits and never have a worry about it, if you are so convinced it's just a money making scam Stop feeding it then Der. On My Honour, I promise that I will do my best, To do my Duty to God and to the Queen, To help other people at all times, And obey the Scout Law. No soldier is obliged to obey a law contrary to the law of God. Thou oughtest not to be slothful to the destruction of the miscreants, but to constrain them to obey our Lord God. Besthuzev, assuming the preparation was directed against Prussia, was more than happy to obey the request of the British. Show More Sentences Let a good man obey every good motion rising in his heart, knowing that every such motion proceeds from God. According to the Quran, angels do not possess free will, and therefore worship and obey God in total obedience. Finnish law forces all workers to obey the national contracts that are drafted every few years for each profession and seniority level. Never speak of the symptoms of your patient in his presence, unless questioned by the doctor, whose orders you are always to obey implicitly. However, many were reluctant to leave, did not obey the eviction notices, and were evicted with force. The terms of the covenant are that God provides a blessed life in the garden on condition that Adam and Eve obey God's law perfectly. Gildas was a subject of the mythical King Arthur, whom he loved and desired to obey. This gives his commands an oraclelike quality that compels the actors to obey. Fleet ships were expected to obey movement orders precisely and not deviate from them. A neutral ship must obey a request to stop for inspection from the blockading nation. In addition, simple refusal to obey is not mutiny, which requires collaboration or conspiracy to disobedience. Any operation of ropes should obey the principle of safe working load, which is usually much less than its ultimate strength. The oligarchical faction, headed by the Romanovs, considered it a disgrace to obey a boyar. Salvation is granted to individuals by means of the word of God and the Holy Spirit, who persuades them to believe and obey. The Congress instead endorsed the proposal of John Adams that Americans would obey Parliament voluntarily but would resist all taxes in disguise. Some detachments quickly joined the rebellion, while others held back but also refused to obey orders to take action against the rebels. A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you this day. So this friar, unworthy as he was of his holy calling, had me at an avail on every side, nor do I yet see what I could do but obey him, as I did. Bull did not hesitate to obey, for the broad, cold blade of a bowie rested lightly against the back of his neck. The Lord has said that we will be blessed and will live in a degree of glory in the next life according to the eternal laws we obey in mortality. Show More Sentences But his later years were marred by quarrels with his eldest son and heir, the Dauphin Louis, who refused to obey him. If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them. The inferior courts are bound to obey precedent established by the appellate court for their jurisdiction, and all supreme court precedent. Each panel of judges on the court of appeals for a circuit is bound to obey the prior appellate decisions of the same circuit. The UN obey the Noblemaire principle, which is binding on any organization that belongs to the UN system. Simon's contextualism will also surprise political theorists, who, since Plato, have generally agreed that everyone has a strong duty to obey the law. The split came about after Gabriel Roric Jur, bishop of Rumbek in south Sudan, refused to obey a church order that bishops must live in their dioceses. She is the Uriah Heep of society, humbling herself before the Church and the Law, whispering sweetly her vow to honor and obey, hugging her chains as a chattel and a slave. Granatir likes to save some London broil from supper and use it to seriously test pup's ability to absorb the lesson and show a willingness to obey under duress. Accordingly he calls the principle of frugality a behavioral norm, something people in daily life ought to obey in order not to act uneconomically. It charges the official to obey his superiors, limit his desires, and to build roads to smooth the transmitting of directives from the center without modification. Seven fascinating profiles feature people in history who, despite the dangers, followed their moral compass rather than obey the rules imposed by the government in power. But it was found later that Berthollet was not completely wrong because there exists a class of compounds that do not obey the law of definite proportions. However, in the case of Macarthys v Smith, Lord Denning suggested that, should such an event occur, the courts would be obliged to obey the domestic law over the European. Courts may choose to obey precedent of international jurisdictions, but this is not an application of the doctrine of stare decisis, because foreign decisions are not binding. One night Robert broke up a drunken party that was shouting they would not obey a bearded boy, saying that he would not fight them as he was sober. A moral engineer from Shanghai speaks about the importance of being blessworthy. It is blessworthy to obey the divine plan and its representatives on Earth, he says. Moreover, the Supreme Court has held that the President must obey outstanding executive orders, even when bottomed on the Constitution, until they are revoked. He required that his actors know their words perfectly, enunciate them clearly and obey his stage directions, which was something quite new to many actors of the day. The American Brogressive has found his next target, one who will presumably be saved from herself, along with everyone else, by learning to obey him. Show More Sentences He still has that dadlike tone that means I must obey him, so I sit. He prosecuted Raleigh in that fashion because he had been asked to show Raleigh's guilt by the king, and as Attorney General, Coke was bound to obey. That obligation in general, under which we conceive ourselves bound to obey a law, independent of those resources which the law provides for its own enforcement. Examples from Classical Literature The national assembly expects that the citizens of Britannula will obey the law. The Calypso is water-logged, will no longer obey her helm, and must surely sink. The ketchuda sent word that he was not prepared to obey the orders of 196 the Sartip of Achaz. Man by nature is degraded, because he is chargeable with original and actual sin, and because he wills not to obey God. Perhaps the venous hmorrhages obey the lunar periods, as the catamenia, and hmorrhoids. These had either refused to Covenant to obey him, or had promised to him deceitfully. He had been wondering and scheming how to compel the Spokesmen of the Gens to obey his will. The schoolmistress didn't mean to obey the order, but for some reason she did. It would not obey his brain because, after all, what could the brain report of his distrustful heart? And without a change of dogmata, what is there but the slavery of men groaning and pretending to obey? Jack Harvey, who had long ere this learned the necessity of quick obedience aboard the dredger, hastened to obey. Their officer had been drilling them carefully and they were all most anxious to obey his orders. But he found one man whose name was Doeg, an Edomite, who was willing to obey the king. But neither this factum, nor two requisitions of the governor, could prevail on these fathers to obey. Citizens who do not obey this will be condemned to hard labor for life in Germany. And his brothers and his kinsmen duteously his hest obey, With each parting guest and monarch journey on the home ward way. For this thing was plain, that the most part of the people was loyal to the King, and minded to follow him and obey Calote's hest. I am sorry to leave them in such a hot corner, but cannot choose and must obey orders. He alone did not obey the law of immutability in the enchanted, sleeping castle. He had no alternative but to obey the suasion of Mr. Rassendyll's arm, and they two began to walk down the Konigstrasse. Show More Sentences Their master had ordered joannes to be brought to him, and they must obey his command. You was jus' 'bliged to obey your marster no matter what he said for you to do. He did not choose to obey Jermyn's indication, and confine himself to the summing-up. Boyd hastened to obey, ladling everything within reach into his mouth as fast as knife and spoon could follow each other. Well, I've noticed that they obey Swanson a heap quicker than they do Peters. And now, said the Emperor, you must all obey your symposiarch, and I am going to tell you each in turn what to do. Still lobelia clung to Grace, and no one else could make her listen and obey. The wretched Theodora was then ordered to retire, but she was unable to obey the mandate. So you see, the man is the top dog in a case like this, my dear, and he can compel the woman to obey him. Miao Shan further promised to observe all the regulations of the nunnery and to obey the superiors. To such as these is it that women are to say, What thou bidst, unargued I obey? And, excuse me for saying, it would be uncourteous not to obey the summons. Consult your own understandings, that you may obey the dictates of your hearts. Think not that it is unlawful to obey in every thing which is unlawfully commanded. She tried not merely to obey his instructions, but also to discover his unvoiced wishes. Besides the law of meat, there were a myriad other and lesser laws for him to learn and obey. But now, however, let us obey dark night, and make ready suppers. Theirs it was to obey orders, but all similarity ended there. Urbino might change masters and obey the viperous Duke Valentino. But before the maroon could obey they heard steps on the porch. Show More Sentences In fear the Indian wife prepared to obey, but as she did so Tom Swift caught sight of the package and uttered a strange cry. Pierre, having made up his mind to obey his monitress implicitly, moved toward the sofa she had indicated. And therefore we obey his stadtholder, the Prince, who reigns in his name. You also tried to release the objective case from its thraldom to the preposition, and it is written that servants should obey their masters. It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey. Those who follow it obey the same laws as a body on an inclined plane. It is fear alone which induces them to obey the will of their masters. Mr. mazey, to his own great regret, was of course obliged to obey. He met Tirlogh Luineach at the bann, and thought him inclined to obey. But I know enough to obey my masters, and to gid-dup, or whoa, when I'm told to. And this,' said the lady, crossing to Smike, as tragic actresses cross when they obey a stage direction, 'and this is the other. The code he learned was to obey the strong and to oppress the weak. Let him keep his bragging talk for his own sons and daughters, who must perforce obey him. Plunge in, and obey my commands, O people of the gens of Dalis! There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. Poor grizzle did not know what to do, but she had to obey the witch. In order to hallow God's name, we must not only hear but obey His Word. Thou wast born a slave, Nola, and shouldst know how to obey. Those were the jong Pen's orders, and they, as well as I, must obey them. He adores me, and I have only to give him a look to make him obey. Show More Sentences The lad sought to obey him with an alacrity that merited a kinder fate. Madelene dropped the armful of clothes she held and fled to obey. Admiral Chateau-Renaud had the rashness to obey this injunction, and the galleons entered Vigo Bay. That was because for once in your life you had relented so far as to obey my wishes. If this class is composed of men of ability, they will obey this natural law, and compel the country to obey. The only requisites for admission to the troop were willingness and ability to fight, and an oath to obey the laws made by Norman of Torn. Kelsey did not betray which command he had thought best to obey. I obey the first clause of the injunction by trying once more, but am not so successful with the second, for I am very stupid. In a pinch they would obey you nearly as well as they obey me. Bassets are quite a stubborn breed, so it is more likely that he chooses not to obey you rather than being unable to hear you. All things are bound to obey Him, He is not bound to obey any. But at present I cannot regain my old self, I can only obey my impulses. If the Sultan was to order me to plunge a dagger in your heart, I should have to obey. A sorry merchant am I on this day, e'en as thou wiliest so must I obey. No brave-hearted missourian will obey the one or submit to the other. Karara is she who swims with the finned ones, and they obey her. If I put an end to your enemy, will you bow down to me and obey me as King of the Forest? Hasikos argued that the soldiers were called into armed service by the state, which also asked of them to obey their seniors' orders unquestioningly. But if, without carrying him into the thought, I look over into his plot, and, guessing how it is with him, ordain this or that, he will never obey me. Do you think the archangel Gabriel thinks anything the less of me, because I promptly and respectfully obey that old hunks in that particular instance? Show More Sentences Did I not, even at the time when I was proud to obey her behest, feel that it was surely a poor love which could drive a lover to his death or the danger of it? However the lackey promised him that it should be taken care of, and urged him to obey the call so pressingly that at last the porter was obliged to yield. As already noted, Luther argued that since the fall all unregenerated human beings are enemies of God who cannot obey God's will and fulfill the law. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of obey? Words that rhyme with obey What is the past tense of obey? What is the adverb for obey? What is the adjective for obey? What is the noun for obey? Translations for obey Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words obesogenic obesity obese Oberon Oberoi Oberlin Obey obeyed obeying obeys obfuscate obfuscated 4-letter Words Starting With o ob obe