disobey
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“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 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
Both the Nuremberg shorthand and Mr. Deluzio’s claim miss the mark: There is no general, affirmative legal duty to disobey an unlawful order.
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
No one had ever dared to disobey him.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
“When he disobeys the rules and gets called out, he goes, ‘Well those moral rules are unjust.’”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2025
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
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
"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
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
A small band disobeyed Uglúk’s command, and ran on towards the forest: only three returned.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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
At one point in the 1980s, bishops from the Society were excommunicated for disobeying Rome, but that decision was later reversed.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 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
Alawieh’s lawyers accused the government of “willfully” disobeying the court’s order, prompting Sorokin to demand an explanation.
From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2025
Or even if it were an order, would he be disobeying it by eating an apple?
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
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