Sentence examples for cannot obey from inspiring English sources
"Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
("You cannot roll over. You cannot obey. You cannot play the bad dog they want you to play.... Bite back").
The carrier cannot obey one statute without sometimes exposing itself to the penalties prescribed by the other.
"We cannot obey the opinion of the students, to allow them to interfere in something that they have nothing to do with".
I'm thinking of the cases when I cannot obey the voice of reason and of that terrible night when I cut her head against the side table.
Adjani lists herself as "artistic director" in the programme, and told Le Monde that she "cannot obey" her stand-in director "if that goes against my organic evidence".
As a result, the movement of animals cannot often obey the rule of normal diffusion, but it obeys Lévy diffusion which is described by a fractional Laplacian operator.
He is, after all, the most humble of fellows, given to saying things like, "We cannot but obey the powers above us".
The Schrödinger equation, i.e. the fundamental law for the temporal evolution of the quantum mechanical state function, cannot possibly obey the relativistic requirement that all physical laws of nature be invariant under Lorentz transformations.
And the rule of exclusion ought not to be emasculated by admitting the evidence and giving to the jury an instruction which, as every judge and lawyer knows, cannot be obeyed.' Morgan, Some Problems of Proof Under the Anglo-American System of Litigation (1956), 104-105.
