How To Use Obey In A Sentence

Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town. The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
And on the need for contempt powers, he recounted how officials at times refused to obey the orders.
Hassan in frequently going to sleep in one town, to awake in another far distant, but without the benighted Oriental's surprise at the transfer, the afrit who performed this prodigy being a steam-engine, and the magician it obeyed the human mind. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
If I command him to put the newest posts at the top like every other bleeding blog in the world - are you listening boyo - will he obey?
We will show solidarity and we will obey the law. The Sun

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I support a troop's right to disobey his or her commanding officer, to desert, to subvert the system that enslaves him.
Education at the primary and secondary levels has always been rules-based: raise your hand, get a hall pass, obey the dress code, show your work, double-space, check your chewing gum at the door. Dov Seidman: Breaking the Ruler
The Sub – Prior readily obeyed the first part of the Abbot’s injunction, but paused upon the second — “It is Friday, most reverend,” he said in Latin, desirous that the hint should escape, if possible, the ears of the stranger. The Monastery
She never disobeyed laws or rules for her own ill-gotten gains, it was just that she was good at it, and it was fun.
It is I, who am to be first obeyed," said he in haughty tones. Hauff's Fairy Tales, Translated and Adapted
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up. Napoleon Bonaparte
There came a collective protest from the students, but they obeyed.
He thought within himself what she could mean by this, and yet, wishing to obey her, he began in joyous mood, "O vernalis rosula. The Life of Blessed Henry Suso by Himself.
Public and administrative law Law can prohibit or regulate activities: The citizen can obey or break the law.
The soldier disobeyed an order.
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.
Poor Sundry Buyers continually pressed his abdomen as he toiled around the deck-capstans; and never was Nancy's face quite so forlorn as when he obeyed the Maltese Cockney's command and went up to loose the mizzen-skysail. CHAPTER L
The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.
People were therefore obliged by considerations of self-interest to obey the commands of established government. English Conservatism since the Restoration: An introduction and anthology
An underground current in the U.S. military's officer corps believes that their legally elected civilian leaders can be disobeyed if an officer believes their orders to be "immoral. Robert Mackey: Politicizing the "Managers of Violence"
You have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered to you, v. 17. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
By day, watch your step, obey the rules or they may call you castrater, bitch, slob, pig, cow, slut whore prostitute chippy tramp. The Women’s Room
For the most part the audience obeyed, dancing as much as space would allow. Times, Sunday Times
He's quite bloodthirsty, killing anyone who disobeys him and gets in his way.
And maybe that's what one is obeying. Times, Sunday Times
I was desirous, but unable, to obey; these gleams were such as preluded the stroke by which he fell; the hour, perhaps, was the same -- I shuddered as if I had beheld, suspended over me, the exterminating sword. Wieland; or the Transformation. An American Tale.
He behaves as if high rank automatically confers the right to be obeyed.
It's harder to find a cyclist obeying the law than one who isn't and it's not just kids.
We drew our battle-axes at the same instant, and rushed at each other, but before either had an opportunity to strike, the pipe was thrust between us, compelling us to desist, to disobey which is instant death. The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth
For the most part the audience obeyed, dancing as much as space would allow. Times, Sunday Times
Ignoring the shivery thrill that raced down her spine, she hurriedly obeyed. ON A WICKED DAWN
As a reward she is allowed to choose her husband and names Bertram, who unwillingly obeys the king's order to wed her.
I do solemnly swear that I will obey all laws commands and dictates of our leader - for he has lovely teeth.
A boson is a particle that obeys Bose statistics: when you take two identical bosons and switch them with each other, the state you end up with is indistinguishable from the state you started with. Thanksgiving
The West, from Rome to Britain, was called into action; the kings of Poland and Bohemia obeyed the summons of Conrad; and it is affirmed by the Greeks and Latins, that, in the passage of a strait or river, the Byzantine agents, after a tale of nine hundred thousand, desisted from the endless and formidable computation. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
This always struck me as redundant, since if we assume the system obeys the equations of motion, the action must be invariant under ANY infinitesimal variation (since the EOM are found by assuming that the action is at an extremum). Special Post: Noether’s First Theorem – Emmy Noether for Ada Lovelace Day
When women say they want independence, people think this means we don't want to obey our fathers, brothers or husbands. But it does not mean that. It means we want to make decisions for ourselves. We want to be free to go to school or to go to work. Malala Yousafzai
She could do nothing for herself, she could only obey Joan's dictates, and this she did in listless misery. That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story
Huh? Poor Tobey, most “fo-reen” cars these days are built right here in the good ol US by good ol Americans. Think Progress » Did George Bush deface the American flag
The melancholic's experience is very different, partly because the loss being grieved rarely obeys the reality principle.
Missus jets out to QLD A.M thursday so I get to collect young fella from Footy training, that 6pm at the earliest, drop at the Marsh, 6.30, turn dunny door around and head for melb, thats 40 minutes obeying the LAW! Cheeseburger Gothic » And some touring admin.
By issuing the order, the Ministry of Defence can argue that the soldier endangered himself by refusing to obey the command.
They are taught to be polite, obey their parents, and defer to authority.
He was told to obey the commandments. Times, Sunday Times
She was obliged to obey, and she called Menelaus in her own voice, and Diomede in the voice of his wife, and Ulysses in the very voice of Penelope. Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the sacker of cities
On his second day in office, President Obama repudiated George W. Bushs obsessive and destructive secrecy by ordering his government to obey the Freedom of Information Act. He said it should not withhold documents because they are embarrassing, or reveal failures and errors, or because of speculative or abstract fears. OpEdNews - Quicklink: NYT OP ED: Did They Miss the Memo?
A party official said it would obey the ruling, but was considering a court appeal.
Though laziness is easily enough understood, I remain mystified as to why anyone who purports to follow Jesus would choose to condemn an entire population over choosing to obey Jesus 'self-proclaimed greatest commandment to love one's neighbor as oneself. John Shore: Toward a Christianity of Common Sense
They told me you were stubborn-necked, but I have obeyed commands. Chapter 11
Rajah Muda Hassim, being well aware of the state of things, sent, at this crisis, to order Si Tundo and his friend to his presence; which order they obeyed forthwith, and entered the balei, or audience-hall, which was full of their enemies. The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
One of the effective measures to minimize the dangers of driving is to teach people to obey all the rules of the road.
Rogers was dismissed from the army for deliberately disobeying an order.
The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.
She was pretty surprised that he actually obeyed her, and managed to hide her smile.
So that there will be no confusion, comfit, when it comes to my wishes I will make you obey. Much Ado About Marriage
With careful training, a dog will obey its master completely.
Her pupils often got the rough edge of her tongue when they disobeyed her.
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. Francis Bacon
This means that when fundamentalists say they are obeying the word of God, they have severely understated the authority for their position.
The Abbot of that monastery was a gentleman by birth, a learned writer and a starets, that is, he belonged to that succession of monks originating in Walachia who each choose a director and teacher whom they implicitly obey. Father Sergius
The merchant maintains that the day for obeying the New Testament rule, "Let the wife fear her husband," will never pass away; that although unfaithfulness, which is assumed to be impossible on the part of the wife, may happen in other classes, in the merchant class it does not happen, and that the carouses of married men at the fair, which the narrator has heard him relating, and of which he reminds him, form a special topic which must be excluded from the discussion. Tolstoy's "Kreutzer Sonata"
They ruled their colonies through governors who obeyed orders without question.
Nebraska State Patrol troopers drove chase cars parallel to the train to stop motorists who didn't obey traffic laws at rail crossings.
In justification of his conduct, he pleaded that he was merely obeying orders.
rm line with him, punish him for disobeying my wishes for him. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Any who takes the bread without the wine, or the wine without the bread, "unworthily" communicates, and so "is guilty of Christ's body and blood"; for he disobeys Christ's express command to partake of both. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
They are also worried that some soldiers opposed to the withdrawal will disobey orders to evacuate settlers.
This field obeys the expected equations of motion for an electromagnetic vector potential in four spacetime dimensions.
The 30 mph limit all the way from Waterhead through the village was surely sensible, and more likely to be obeyed.
However, this has mostly been in regard to the obeying of laws.
He's probably the most successful soccer bettor in the world," says Keith Sobey, who oversees a London sports-betting academy. In English Soccer, the Bettors Rule
Secondly, the party disobeying the contempt order must do so in a deliberate and willful fashion in order to satisfy the criminal nature of the contempt proceedings.
She was used to having her orders instantly obeyed.
She is harsh and undutiful to him, and her servants either refuse to obey his orders or pretend that they did not hear them.
That I will be both swave and deboner when I obey all orders given to me by her Magesty the Queen, Queen Elizabeth the II her heirs, successors and the officers and Generals set over me Army Rumour Service
It was a strict upbringing in which rules were sacrosanct, orders were obeyed without question and everyone knew their place.
Inwardly glowing with impatience, Arthur yet saw the necessity of obeying his guide; and when he had pulled the long and loose upper vestment from the old man, he stood before him in a cassock of black serge, befitting his order and profession, but begirt, not with a suitable sash such as clergymen wear, but with a most uncanonical buff-belt, supporting a short two-edged sword, calculated alike to stab and to smite. Anne of Geierstein
The question that divided them is still a live one: Does a tyrant, who seizes power by force, who is obeyed from fear, have a right to rule?
Greg is a corporal in the army but he never seems to obey orders or even to address his superiors as anything other than equals.
Michaels barked, pounding out crisp sharp words that so thundered with command that even the untrained and deaf would jump to obey.
Ofelia, who was used to being the boss all the time, would now have to obey every word that was uttered from Stolly - a weak, spineless, cowardly man in her mind.
Captain Harper shouted out orders to his crew, who rushed to obey his commands.
For the most part the audience obeyed, dancing as much as space would allow. Times, Sunday Times
Rogue!" screams Dr. Toobey, "but for the worshipful house we are in, I would batoon you to a mummy. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
But if a stranger or metic smite one who is older by twenty years or more, the same law shall hold about the bystanders assisting, and he who is found guilty in such a suit, if he be a stranger but not resident, shall be imprisoned during a period of two years; and a metic who disobeys the laws shall be imprisoned for three years, unless the court assign him a longer term. Laws
Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants.
Time limits were there to be obeyed. Times, Sunday Times
You are protected by me and my power like every other vampire who follows and obeys me.
Tom never disobeyed his father, for Mr. Tulliver was a peremptory man, and, as he said, would never let anybody get hold of his whip hand; but he went out rather sullenly, carrying his piece of plumcake, and not intending to reprieve Maggie's punishment, which was no more than she deserved. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
That kings are the servants of the people, to be obeyed, resisted, deposed, or punished, as the public conveniency may require, is the doctrine of reason and philosophy; but it is not the doctrine of Nature.
Mexico was shot using extreme overexposure and printing down, adjusting the shutter angle to 45 degrees to give it a very strobey look.
They do not want to become what they fight, namely a nihilist who asserts his will rather than good men who obey a notion of justice outside of their own desires. South Dakota Politics
She does what I ask but refuses point-blank to obey her father. The Sun
If quantum measurements appear random to us simply because we do not know the values of these hidden variables, experimental measurements should obey certain inequalities. Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?
And legitimacy is far more than the artifact of an observed tendency of people to obey institutional precepts; even the term precepts is conceptually slightly different from commands or orders. The Volokh Conspiracy » Paternalistic versus Therapeutic?
Back to bucket carrying on the course - people are still not obeying a rule which applies to golfers carrying their golf bags.
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
I know the mode has been chicaned upon; but it was substantially obeyed, and much better obeyed than I fear the Parliamentary requisition of this session will be, though enforced by all your rigor and backed with all your power. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12)
Although Friedmann found only one, there are in fact three different kinds of models that obey Friedmann's two fundamental assumptions.
We must obey traffic regulations,I can't disobey.
Disobeying this golden rule will result in undesirable consequences.
They are used to having people supporting them, cheering them and obeying orders.
Although all the victims obeyed the intruders' orders, one man was physically assaulted, said Deputy Benita Nichol.
From the jurisprudence perspective, the judicial practice cannot and simultaneously should not obey the logic of the statute law, or official law all the time.
The first advance of the little army of the elect reawakened their rage; they grasped their arms, and waited but their leader's signal to commence the attack, when the clear tones of Adrian's voice were heard, commanding them to fall back; with confused murmur and hurried retreat, as the wave ebbs clamorously from the sands it lately covered, our friends obeyed. III.4
He was meant for royalty and people always obeyed him.
These officials should be instructed that they have the right and duty to refuse to obey any order to participate in torture.
Mr. Ruskin bade men "go to Nature in all singleness of heart, and walk with her laboriously and trustingly, having no other thought but how best to penetrate her meaning, _rejecting nothing, selecting nothing and scorning nothing_;" and Mr. Hamerton was literally obeying him when he exiled himself for five years in a hut on an island in a bleak Scotch lake to learn faithfully to portray the shores of that single lake. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878
Replied the Shaykh, “I hear and obey the bidding of the Commander of the Faithful; but know, O Emir, that the road thither is long and difficult and the ways few.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
I believe he will do as the law instructs him to and we will certainly counsel him to obey the law.
The Wandsworth resident was outraged when he found parking tickets were being slapped on unwitting motorists who were actually obeying the restrictions in his street.
The former reflects the positive effects of rhetoric, while the latter violates the regularity of language itself, or disobeys the social code of ethics.
The most satisfying examples of it occur when the nonsense operates according to the rules of an anarchic universe, and obeys logic within this context.
We may well be living in a habitable portion of an infinite and random universe whose initial state obeyed no laws of Nature at all.
During World War II, a German army commander disobeyed orders to destroy the Ponte Vecchio.
People like your son disobey our laws, but I warn you firmly that we will not be undermined. DESPERADOES
They had to obey strict security instructions or be expelled. Times, Sunday Times
As I am resolved to _obey_ your orders, and directions of the Council, without any delay, as long as I live, I have, agreeably to those _orders_, delivered up _all my private papers_ to him [the Resident], that, when he shall have examined my receipts and expenses, _he may take whatever remains_. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12)
Public and administrative law Law can prohibit or regulate activities: The citizen can obey or break the law.
Payment was resisted in Yorkshire and Durham, and the Earl of Northumberland thereupon summoned the nobility and gentry of the North to meet him at York, and told them they must obey the King's demands.
Their leaders outside the jails issue orders that have to be obeyed on pain of summary execution.
They were required to cut pollution levels, on pain of a £10 000 fine if they disobeyed.
Hamlet," so far is he from any idea of blood revenge, that he doubts and disobeys the message from the other world, doubts indeed the existence of any other world, and dies at last not a bloody death, but by a foil "unbated and envenomed. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant
His dad would beat/knock/kick the shit out of him if he disobeyed.
Rather than putting signs up specifically for farangs who make mistaken assumption, the farang should obey the traffic laws as they stand.
Today Di the drum dress a spirit and prepare to take a brigade and teach this indocile federal country in the middle of the green center, what be shrieked to obey.
For not immediately obeying him, or for her very presence? she wondered briefly, then gave a mental shrug.
That should be the message and this change will tell motorists that speed limits are carefully considered and therefore are to be obeyed. The Sun
Thou knowest that I tormented Salah al-Din the Cairene and befooled him till I buried him alive and reduced his lads to obey me, and amongst them Ali The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
In their daily routine, the performers must obey the rules and regulations, and violations can lead to job dismissal.
Andrew gunned the engine and flipped the sirens on, sending the car shooting forward between the two rows of traffic that pulled aside, obeying the wailing noise.
Ambassador Margaret Scobey that the shift was made to "facilitate" better relations with Egypt's government. Follow the Egyptian money
On receiving the unexpected order, Pepe rose from his habitual attitude of recumbence, stretched himself at his leisure, yawned several times, and then obeyed the summons, saying as he went out: "What the devil fancy has the captain got into his head to send for _me_? Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora
When we study stock market, we usually think that the model of stock price obeys Brownian movement, which log-return characterize normal distribution.
Disobeying the 19th-century "rule" laid down at Le Cercle de Linguistique de Paris (forbidding the presentation of any paper dealing with the origin of language), Waldron presents a theory, that is at once logical, biological, and psychological, showing how language naturally emerges from its prelinguistic antecedents (perceptual and behavioral) to become the key factor in the development of a distinctively human kind of intelligence and thought. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 2
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully. Thomas Fuller
This simple requirement to obey the law works well when the law is clear. Times, Sunday Times
It reminded me of the concept in poetry of "enjambment" where the implied silence at the ends of lines can be crafted to carry meanings that nuance, augment, or contradict readings that obey the conventions of punctuation. SWEATblog: Incompleteness
The course evaluation of ideological cultivation should obey the Principles of directivity , development, and integration.
Laura's mother told her to stay inside, but she disobeyed and went out.
I refuse to watch anymore Tobey McGuire and crappy cg. WEEKLY KETCHUP: SPIDER-MAN 5 & 6 PLANNED | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
Does he realise that in many cases the drivers are simply obeying the national 50mph speed limit for vehicles pulling trailers? Times, Sunday Times
Both generators obey the first ground rule of satire: meticulous observation.
A pardon need not imply that a soldier did not desert, or show cowardice, or disobey orders.
Elephants would be trained for one hour each in the morning and evening to make it obey certain commands as well.
Not that we would have, anyway - when an aristocrat orders, the commoners obey.
Being prompt to obey commands is soldiers'bounden duty.
Moor circled round his opponent, as a hawk circles when about to make a swoop; his steed obeyed his rider with matchless quickness; at every attack of the infidel, it seemed as if the Christian knight must sink beneath his flashing scimiter. Washington Irving
He was looking for a quiet submissive wife who would obey his every word.
Of course, if he was accepted into training, he would get in much more trouble for disobeying the rules.
They had to swear over this bloody slice of boar's flesh that they would obey the rules of the game and use no unfair means to gain victory.
‘O Allah, I swear by Thy Greatness and Thy Glory, I meant not through my disobedience to transgress against Thee; for indeed I am not ignorant of Thee; but my fault is one Thou didst foreordain to me from eternity without beginning; 357 so do Thou pardon my transgression, for indeed I disobeyed Thee of my ignorance!’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
'Ye have not heard his voice at any time,' might mean, '_Ye have never listened to his voice_,' or '_Ye have never obeyed his voice_' but the following phrase, 'nor seen his shape,' keeps us rather to the primary sense of the word _hear: 'The sound of his voice is unknown to you;' Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II.
Their leaders outside the jails issue orders that have to be obeyed on pain of summary execution.
According to them citizens must live and obey the governing rules of their society, but only contractually.
His companion scurried to obey him, unclipping a ring of heavy keys from somewhere inside his voluminous robes.
To learn obeying is the fundamental art of governing.
The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God,[sentence dictionary] which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.
Generally speaking, things are sailing smoothly and so Mrs. Gao is not willing to disobey the official ideological demands or hints.
You must obey the rule. It is useless for you to kick against the pricks.
Who is the douche bag pasting up those goddamn ‘OBEY’ posters in our fair city?
The German Shepherd will usually obey a command which the Doberman might refuse.
NIV We have lived in tents and have fully obeyed everything our forefather Jonadab commanded us.
I obeyed her command without questioning, since she was responsible for the most fun I'd had in my life up to that point.
The most likely explanation is that the militias' leadership is ordering this restraint, obeying the instructions of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani.
This power soon corrupted them and people were put to death for daring to disobey the laws.
Policing is only practicable and therefore expedient if the court acting in that role has power to enforce its powers if disobeyed.
The great duty of children is to obey their parents (v. 1), parents being the instruments of their being, God and nature having given them an authority to command, in subserviency to God; and, if children will be obedient to their pious parents, they will be in a fair way to be pious as they are. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Kids need to get used to the fact that there are rules to be obeyed for the rest of their lives.
Do you think people should obey you without question? Times, Sunday Times
Such a man obeys my commands and carefully keeps my laws.
To her surprise, the puppy actually obeyed her and walked cheerfully over to the tub.
As a citizen, you should obey these rules.
In justification of his conduct, he pleaded that he was merely obeying orders.
In the modern vows, however, the word 'obey' is excluded. BBC News - Home
He knew just how short his lifespan would be if he disobeyed a direct order from the human.
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Grant obeyed, flinging the pistol off to one side with a sweep of his arm.
The view of the Law of Moses that you get in Luke and Acts, is that the law is good ethnic law and custom for the Jewish people, and it's perfectly fine for them to obey it and to keep it.
And he that will not obey to him that hath the cure over him when he enseigneth and teacheth him good that he is bound to do, he sinneth grievously and is inobedient, which is deadly sin. The Golden Legend, vol. 1
In spirit and body, he was the incarnation of She-who-must-be-obeyed. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
I'm not a churchman any more, your Grace, so I don't automatically obey those who outrank me now. THE TREASURED ONE
With a gargantuan effort, they obey me, sliding a couple of centimetres in turn. Times, Sunday Times
Yes, CHRIST speaks as one who commands and is obeyed in his own right: but have you not digressed from the chief matter in hand? A Few Words to the Soldiers of the Confederate States.
The little boy made no effort to obey.
It is a medal that was given to a a soldier that # 1 disobeyed a direst order or command, put their Platoon, Unit, Command and or Dave M Murphy
And in obeying this necessity, Spinoza goes on to argue, we are completely free.
Many Opposition Members who will obey the three-line Whip and vote against the motion will do so with a heavy heart.
There is a law above all the laws of men, the authority of which remains for ever unchangeable; and when any _human laws_ are in opposition to the _divine_, it is our duty to obey God rather than man. The Ordinance of Covenanting
What's more, the assumption that foreign ships picking people up and letting them off in the US should have to obey every jot and tittle of US law is an extreme imperialist idea.
In the sect, there was an esoteric minority called perfecti, who were supposed to obey the strict rules of an ascetic ethic; the rest were auditores, who followed, at a distance, the doctrines of the perfecti but not their rules. Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
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.
SCUM will keep on destroying, looting, fucking-up and killing until the money-work system no longer exists and automation is completely instituted or until enough women co-operate with SCUM to make violence unnecessary to achieve these goals, that is, until enough women either unwork or quit work, start looting, leave men and refuse to obey all laws inappropriate to a truly civilized society. The S.C.U.M. Manifesto
The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.
On the jurisprudence perspective, the judicial practice could not simultaneously should not obey the logic of the statute law, or official law all the time.
But the sentiment we have obeyed is too sincere to allow indifference to obtain entrance into our minds, or to prevent us from being painfully affected by the continuance of the conflict. France and America
Lieutenant Parker to come out, in order that he might make room for two smaller men, and he _obeyed the order_. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)
She had disobeyed a witness summons ordering her to give evidence at the trial.
I wanted to disobey but feared it would make him iracundulous. Times, Sunday Times
So if he is not extremely vigilant throughout his house and grounds, he may be caught with a hundred dollar fine, OR be imprisoned three months in the House of Correction at the pleasure of the magistrate!! and for every subsequent offense may be _imprisoned in the House of Correction_ as much as one year, and then required to give security for obeying the law. Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6

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