Sentence examples for could obey from inspiring English sources

In 1926, Westinghouse Electric Corporation introduced the world to Televox, a robot that could obey a human voice.

The bishops could obey the law and then try to persuade their flock not to use contraception.

"We believed that because our private lives were free we could obey the authorities in our public life," he said.

After saying he could not turn over the Watergate tapes & other documents to Judge Sirica, he reconsidered the matter and decided he could obey the Judge's order.

"If Puffy showed up here in a limo, he could come in as long as he had a reservation and could obey my rules," he said.

We leave out that this freedom was needed in large part so that the Puritans could obey the Fourth Commandment -- "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy" -- with a zealotry that had deeply alienated their countrymen back home.

I could not manufacture, control, or command my curiosity, be it for girls or stories; I could only obey it and move effortlessly, or deny it and struggle against its ceaseless current.

ANTAKYA, Turkey — To escape the government he served until it gave him an order he could not obey, Capt.

When he could not obey police officers' commands to put his paralyzed hand on the wheel, said the man, Luis Maldonado, officers put a gun to his head, beat him, dragged him out of the car and doused him with pepper spray.

I could have obeyed; many, perhaps most, painters do.

Children must listen... Why could you not obey?