disobey

“I felt,” Whitman later wrote, “the clear and unmistakable conviction to disobey all, and pursue my own way.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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

If it is unclear whether an order is illegal, the law’s message is simple: Obey and you are likely protected; disobey and you shoulder the risk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

The duty to disobey manifestly illegal orders is a cornerstone of international law, with foundations in Nazi atrocities-related post-World War II trials like Nuremberg.

From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2025

João and Simplicio didn’t want to disobey Rondon’s order to stay put, but they didn’t want to disobey Kermit’s order, either.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

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

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 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

“They see protesters as criminals because if someone disobeys or protests the military, they are criminal,” Captain Tun Myat Aung said.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2021

It is the court that will sanction a witness for contempt if he or she disobeys a subpoena without adequate excuse, not the prosecutor.

From Slate ● Dec. 10, 2018

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

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi

"If I had disobeyed my mother and gone to New York, what might have happened to me?" asks Gláucia Fekete.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 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

Herbert said his officers had no way of knowing if Bates was armed, adding that she had disobeyed officers’ orders to surrender.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2024

As the damp night descends, I consider how I disobeyed and deceived my father.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Back when Hal was still a novelty to the public, we see 10-year-old John disobeying his father’s TV ban to watch the hero’s first-ever interview on “60 Minutes.”

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

Our purpose is simply to provide all readers insight into the laws and procedures associated with military orders and the challenges involved in identifying, questioning, and disobeying orders that are unlawful.

From Slate ● Nov. 24, 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

He drove his superiors and fellow officers to fury, partly by repeatedly disobeying instructions and partly by his paranoid habit of refusing to divulge his strategies, such as they were, to anyone.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson