Sentence examples for as obedient to from inspiring English sources

This year, the city's Panel for Education Policy, a public board as obedient to mayoral desire as any in the city, voted to begin the shutdown of Legacy, a process that takes years.

Polaris was certainly an American missile, made by Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin) in California, but it would be just as obedient to British command as the British-built bombers it replaced.

The idea of such power pervades Emerson's Nature, where he writes of nature as "obedient" to spirit and counsels each of us to "Build … your own world".

Tiberius was as obedient as his father.

I imagine that later, after I've gone, she will rearrange it on Christina's head, and my sister will be still before her, as obedient as a child.

One thing that you can't do is assume that the GT2 will be quite as obedient as four-wheel drive 911s, because this Porsche only has rear-wheel drive, albeit with a highly optimized suspension.

If you have younger siblings, help them with their homework and their chores, be a model of good behavior for them and try to encourage their obedience to you just as you are obedient to your parents.

"There is strong support for the military as an institution, which is perceived as efficient, professional and obedient to authority," Mr. Fuentes said.

Members of the lower classes and women are portrayed in the novel as "superstitious, idolatrous, slavishly obedient to the Church".

Contrary to attacks of secrecy and heresy, the bishop described Opus Dei's founder as someone who is "open as a child" and "most obedient to the Church hierarchy".

On one level the production remains obedient to convention as it embarks on the narration of two dysfunctional love stories.