Sentence examples for able to obey from inspiring English sources

I was no longer able to obey the word and will of my father".

Then he knew he wouldn't be able to obey orders to shoot.

A firm based in, say, Ireland will be able to obey Irish law and do business across the EU, without worrying whether it is in line with other countries' rules.

Patients who do show signs of awareness those who are able to obey a command to blink or track a moving object with their eyes, for example—are by definition not vegetative and are spared this fate.

Although Paxton argued at the time that the car that blocked the ASL meant he wouldn't have been able to obey the law without putting himself in danger, he received an FPN regardless.

Mr Wing (a racist stereotype even then) refuses to sell the innocent-looking mogwai, knowing all too well this cookie-cutter American family will not be able to obey the rules, and so it proves with disastrous consequences.

He should be able to lean on separatists to obey a ceasefire and enable an international investigation to advance.

None were able to do so: Every time, neutrinos appeared to obey the speed limit of light.

That he was not able to serve, when he felt worthy to rule; to obey, when he wanted to command?

We are able, with great argument and difficulty, to formulate and strive to obey rules by which society should be governed, so-called ethical rules.

"Our kids needed a different kind of push to be able to understand and obey.