obey

Example Sentences

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A group of Chagossians are refusing to obey a removal order issued by British authorities, after landing on the Chagos Islands to protest against a deal to hand over the territory to Mauritius.

From BBC

In a sometimes tetchy exchange, Sherborne put to the former editor that a series of journalists did not obey the ban and continued paying private investigators and freelance journalists for unlawful information.

From BBC

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

My limbs wouldn’t obey my confused thoughts, as if they trusted themselves to be better judges of what I needed.

From Literature

But her great-aunt forbade an immense, book-length list of things, and she couldn’t obey them all.

From Literature