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In evangelical Christianity, God is viewed as the ultimate father figure who is to be obeyed totally and blindly.

Staff informed the agents that they did not have permission to enter the school and ordered them to leave the area, which they obeyed.

Once the fighting stops, the thinking goes, both soldiers and civilians will remember whether those on the other side obeyed international law, or whether they committed atrocities.

Many federal judges who meant their oaths to the Constitution understand that the Roberts Court obeyed Trump in advance, a grievous error.

Presidents of both parties have understood and obeyed the bedrock principle that presidents follow court orders even those they disagree with.