As it was, he had rested in the consideration that disobedience to his orders, however it might have arisen, could not be considered a crime, that in the dominant opinion obedience to his orders was just as likely to be fatal, and that the affair was simply one of etiquette.
So command Exists but with obedience.
Lydgate said, "Very well," with a surly obedience, and thus the discussion ended with his promising Rosamond, and not with her promising him.
Whereas Fever had obscure conditions, and gave him that delightful labor of the imagination which is not mere arbitrariness, but the exercise of disciplined power—combining and constructing with the clearest eye for probabilities and the fullest obedience to knowledge; and then, in yet more energetic alliance with impartial Nature, standing aloof to invent tests by which to try its own work.
Coutras followed her, but waited outside in obedience to her gesture.
" Anne had slid to the floor in despairing obedience.
She did not even remind Valancy that her plight was the outcome of her own lack of daughterly respect and obedience.
Instant obedience was the only safe thing.
"Older dogs are much harder to train; we found that the 'sweet spot' for teaching a dog obedience is around the age of six, when it outgrows its excitable puppy stage but before its too set in its ways.
Dog owners and trainers less familiar with the dogs were asked to evaluate the animals' 'trainability' by answering questions on obedience and how quickly commands were responded to.
) Happy are the families where the government of parents is the reign of affection, and obedience of the children the submission to love.
Happy are the families where the government of parents is the reign of affection, and obedience of the children the submission to love.
Yet this sort of training, based on pride and obedience and anonymity, is not merely out of fashion in the corporate world, it has vanished without trace.
In his famous obedience experiments, psychologist Stanley Milgram found that people would be willing to deliver a potentially fatal electrical shock to another person when ordered to by the experimenters.
Love makes obedience easy.
But this desire for obedience hasn't gone away; it's just gone underground.
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Then the girl went to the stove where the animals were lying, and petted the cock and hen, and stroked their smooth feathers with her hand, and caressed the brindled cow between her horns, and when, in obedience to the old man's orders, she had made ready some good soup, and the bowl was placed upon the table, she said, "Am I to eat as much as I want, and the good animals to have nothing?
Obedience is the first duty of a soldier.
Obedience is the first duty of a soldier.
