disobey
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In lieu of suspensions, administrators invite offenders to reflect in a soothing place on the feelings and trauma that led them, say, to hit another student or disobey a teacher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 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
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
“Thank you, God. I will not disobey again. I promise.”
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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
Emma disobeys orders and tends to him, despite his repeated pleas for her to stay away.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2020
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
"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
Under the 2024 Manual for Courts-Martial, “an order requiring the performance of a military duty or act may be inferred to be lawful, and it is disobeyed at the peril of the subordinate.”
From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2025
She disobeyed the order, explaining that because of what was happening in Los Angeles, “I just felt like I needed to do it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2025
I lay on her pillow, whimpering, wondering how the termites knew I’d disobeyed my mother.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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
“If there is a court order, that’s something else. But this is not a court order. There is no penalty for disobeying a telegram.”
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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