obedience

Example Sentences

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Padrino was one of few close Maduro allies to have remained in the interim government, having sworn "loyalty and absolute obedience" to Rodriguez.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

It is about the importance to society of “obedience to the unenforceable”: “the obedience of a man to that which he cannot be forced to obey.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Using songs based on real Shaker hymns, the movie’s most technically ambitious and narratively gratifying scenes depict these vigorous motions as communal expressions of hunger, obedience, grief, devotion and ecstasy.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2025

In Nazi Germany, for instance, soldiers took a “holy oath” of “unconditional obedience to the Leader of the German Reich and people, Adolf Hitler, supreme commander of the armed forces.”

From Slate • Nov. 21, 2025

It was a taste of obedience without an order, and I didn’t like it any better than the Lucinda-induced kind.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine