disobey

“The constitutional protections in our military structures depend on the idea that there are humans who would, we hope, disobey illegal orders.”

From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2026

“You can’t put on the screen that it’s right for a young girl to disobey her father,” Nava recalled Quintanilla saying.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2025

The law is clear that service members can disobey illegal orders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

If an order is legally ambiguous, a service member will only find out whether it was lawful to disobey at a court-martial, where a military judge decides.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

“Do you really think I would disobey the order of the Collective? Are you doubting the Chancellor knows everything that happens on this ship?”

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

She goes against his precepts and disobeys his orders — they appear as onscreen italic titles — and he gets stroppy, as a father would.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025

Black hair disobeys temporality as surely as it does gravity ...

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2022

She disobeys her grandfather’s warnings by befriending the white brother and sister across the street, and a complex relationship forms as she both envies and emulates their freedom.

From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2022

While each service has developed its own process, all are following existing rules for when a service member disobeys a lawful order.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 16, 2021

Call her name, I tell my mouth, but it, too, disobeys.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi

Anyone who disobeyed decorum "might have some legal issues of your own," the officer warned.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Murphy, who sits in Massachusetts, did not merely rule against the policy; he also documented the many ways that government officials lied, stonewalled, and disobeyed court orders throughout the litigation.

From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2026

"Irancell disobeyed the orders of the decision-making institutions in implementing the announced policies regarding the restriction of internet access in crisis situations," the agency said.

From Barron's ● Jan. 18, 2026

The judge said the city “flouted” its responsibility to provide the court with “accurate and comprehensive data” and disobeyed a court order dealing with its strategy for reducing homeless encampments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2025

Even though my confidence had been shaken by what I had seen and experienced, there were times when I disobeyed the rules and thumbed my nose at the Nazis.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

Separating from the military takes months, and will almost certainly be complicated by a red flag in one’s record for disobeying orders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

“We believe, however, that given the high societal importance of this topic, it was crucial to conduct a study of this kind, even if it meant disobeying the rules.”

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2025

Last month fines went up ten-fold for blocking the road or disobeying the police and Tamar Oniani says in one day alone they received 150 calls from protesters who had been fined.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2025

Prometheus found himself chained to the side of a Scythian mountain for disobeying the gods, who believed their strength depended on keeping people in dumb and servile awe.

From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2025

I turned my back and went to the cookhouse, deliberately disobeying.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler