Sentence examples for act of disobedience from inspiring English sources

I am engaged in an illegal act of disobedience.

At the time, it seemed an insignificant act of disobedience.

However, an act of disobedience to a court order often may be treated as either civil or criminal contempt or as both.

Satan arouses in Eve a comparable state of mind, which is enacted in her partaking of the forbidden fruit, an act of disobedience.

"What we are judging today is neither a labor conflict nor a strike, but an act of disobedience and a challenge to the democratic order," Mr. Zapatero said.

Luther's father, a well-off smelting master, wanted young Martin to marry into money; instead, in a flagrant act of disobedience, he became a tonsured Augustinian monk.

Those shallow foundations were vulnerable to individual acts of disobedience.

Modern Presidents have occasionally been constrained by isolated acts of disobedience by government officials.

The children's mother, Caroline, is close friends with Harriet's mother, the two being former suffragists once arrested together for unspecified acts of disobedience.

There, he took piano and violin lessons from an early age, and performed in his school orchestra until age 16, when he was kicked out for various acts of disobedience.

The ultimate impact of more recent acts of civil disobedience – anti-abortion trespass demonstrations or acts of disobedience taken as part of the environmental movement and animal rights movement – remains to be seen.