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The tuition in obedience that I received as a boy was too severe, too Spartan to be imposed upon Athenians.
The Bishop of Middlesborough received and consecrated her as a hermit in 1994 and she took her vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.
This had created an authoritarian mentality characterized by unquestioning obedience to the emperor and his power-hungry generals.
It is for this reason that Chinese society places such strong emphasis on the honour and obedience one owes to one's parents.
Standard poodles are especially noted for their intelligence and obedience, earning them high marks as family dogs among many top trainers.
I imagine that Gadarene parents used the demoniac to scare their children into obedience like we do the boogeyman.
Rather, Jesus is believed to be present in ways which allow him to be related to in faith, love, hope, joy, and obedience.
The evidence suggests to many that obedience to a complex truth suffered from a sense of urgency that made attention harder.
The 18th century philosophers wanted to liberate man from the shackles of blind faith and obedience to authority.
Sally with her handler Laura proved that cross-breeds are just as good at obedience and agility as their pedigree counterparts.
That is where Milgram was to conduct his classic and controversial experiments on blind obedience to authority.
This whole huge area was crawling with soldiers, and each wave of a heavy gun resulted in quick, frightened obedience from the people.
In her mind, slave markets were merely fodder for tales designed to shock defiant little girls into greater obedience.
Consecration through the vow of obedience, on the other hand, is made coram populo, that is, in front of everyone.
The investiture conferred titles, responsibilities, and rewards, but it also entailed obedience.
We are faced with fideism or with uncritical obedience to tradition, and the distinction between the two may be no more than academic.
It seems that there's a terrible mindset at work here, one which puts obedience to authority beyond all other concerns.
The most important qualities of a good child are respect for the elderly and obedience to parental authority.
The church was remarkably successful in implanting tradition, respect for hierarchy and obedience to authority in French Canadian society.
But even monastic women, after taking the vows of chastity, obedience and poverty, could not he cleansed of the stigma of Eve.
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Examples from Classical Literature
With what authority do we elicit respect and obedience from our little people!
All these are not means for teaching knowledge, but for inspiring obedience.
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience to law.
Do you object to atheism, and yet regard obedience to God as an invention of the priests?
So in Bohol the chiefs gave their obedience, and came to the ships of their own will.
In obedience to it, it was the bravo now who advanced and engaged Garnache.
What difference in point of obedience is there between a soldier and a Carthusian?
Your praying is useless, and your churchgoing mere mockery of God, if you have not plain obedience in you enough for this.
The sister principle of loyalty in Confucian ethics is obedience to parents.
These broad canyons, or canyon valleys, are carved by the streams in obedience to an interesting law of corrasion.
From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion.
Jack Harvey, who had long ere this learned the necessity of quick obedience aboard the dredger, hastened to obey.
Their highest quality is obedience, which is the result of their Confucian culture.
Overpowering her dire confusion, in obedience to him, she looked at the epergne, and listened.
The dory slackened speed, turned in obedience to the steering oar, and slid under the forequarter of the anchored vessel.
This principle of obedience is the foundation stone of Japanese family life.
He called out the fyrd, the militia, of all or some of the shires under his obedience.
But how is it that they are subdued into that spherical obedience, like a crystal of wavellite?
All possibility of doubt about anything was silenced by obedience to the starets.
But he also learned stern, strict obedience, such as it was impossible for him to forget.
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