The phrase "are expected to obey" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to indicate that there is an obligation or requirement to follow rules or instructions.
Example: "All employees are expected to obey the company's safety regulations at all times."
Alternatives: "are required to follow" or "must comply with".
(TMZ said that its employees are expected to obey the law).
Women here are expected to obey their husbands, and they are expected to lead circumspect, circumscribed lives.
Likewise, golfers are expected to obey the rules and mark their scores honestly, and so they do.
But in Greece, where a vast majority of people belong to the Greek Orthodox Church, the dress code has changed little in five centuries, and priests are expected to obey it.
To be safe, however, such reconfigurations are expected to obey the fundamental principles originally specified by its architect.
This paper argues that while influencing charitable donations, the ideal interests of business owners will also inevitably be affected by the institutional environment, namely whether there are party groups that affect the impact of ideal interests on donations, especially when business owners are party members and party members are expected to obey the party morally.
Mr. Wagner was reminded that the archbishop had spoken and that Catholics were expected to obey.
Freshmen were called "fish," as in "Fish Perry," and were expected to obey upperclassmen.
Yet when told to "step up" (go forward), "gee" (turn right), "haw" (left) or "whoa," I was expected to obey.
Mr. Wehmeier said that Bayer executives were expected to obey "not only the letter of the law, but the spirit of the law as well".
In politics every element was expected to obey "one head, one governor, one law" in exactly the same way as all parts of the human body obeyed the brain.
