Disobey Sentence Examples

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  • I didn't disobey him.

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  • He began to disobey orders from Madrid and became entangled in intrigues to manage or even to coerce the king.

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  • They did not venture to disobey, and were distributed among the legions there.

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  • Disobey him and I have like, a ten percent chance.

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  • Disobey me and you will be destroyed.

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  • She would not disobey Abraham in any way, for which God honored her.

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  • Many years ago there lived in England many good people, but the king and his friends were not kind and gentle and patient with good people, because the king did not like to have the people disobey him.

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  • The girl didn't respond, but he knew she wouldn't disobey his command, as much as she might Jessi's.

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  • His command was quiet and firm, but Sofia knew no man in the room would disobey a man like him.

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  • You cannot have any assurance while you wilfully disobey God's commands, not seeking to change.

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  • They do not crowd one another aside, and they will never disobey his word.

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  • Garibaldi replied asking "permission to disobey."

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  • The provisional government of Sao Paulo, influenced by the brothers Andrada, began a movement for independence by asking the prince to disobey the Cortes and remain in Brazil, and the council of Rio de Janeiro followed with a similar representation, to which the prince assented.

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  • Ladmirault, commanding the French 4th Corps had seen, during the afternoon of the 15th, the terrible crowd and confusion prevailing in the defiles leading to Gravelotte, and resolved to disobey his orders and to move direct from his bivouacs by the road from Woippy to St Privat, disregarding altogether the alleged danger from the Prussians supposed to be advancing from Thionville.

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  • But Rousseau's shyness or his perversity (as before, probably both) made him disobey the command.

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  • Princess Mary, alarmed by her father's feverish and sleepless activity after his previous apathy, could not bring herself to leave him alone and for the first time in her life ventured to disobey him.

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  • He had managed people for a long time and knew that the chief way to make them obey is to show no suspicion that they can possibly disobey.

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  • This teaches a child that he or she is allowed to disobey authority especially when he or she doesn't like someone in that position.

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  • Later in life, this could lead the child to disobey laws and rules at work and in society.

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  • Make sure children understand the consequences if they disobey any rules.

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  • He did n't disobey me, break any rules.

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  • Disobey me, and I'll kill him.

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  • Decisions of one day were frequently reversed the next, and every one held himself free to disobey any law that he did not approve of..

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  • Butler does not deny this, so far as mere claim to authority is concerned; 1 but he maintains that, the dictates of conscience being clear and certain, while the calculations of self-interest lead to merely probable conclusions, it can never be practically reasonable to disobey the former, even apart from any proof which religion may furnish of the absolute coincidence of the two in a future life.

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