Sentence examples for demand for obedience from inspiring English sources

The general tone is deeply moralistic and theocentric, reverberating with a demand for obedience to a transcendent but compassionate God.

This demand for obedience is most often seen in competitive authoritarian regimes, which I study.

Ms. magazine reported that Sister Donna Quinn, president of NCAN, said that the Pope's demand for obedience "tramples on who we are as women religious in the United States".

What isn't included is the reality beneath the surface, the leader's demands for obedience from its members, the psychological pressure, the ability to subordinate all activities to the leader's will.

Jassim Sultan, a renowned Qatari intellectual, strikes a chord by rejecting the Brotherhood's demand for strict obedience from its followers, and derides its slogan, "Islam is the solution", as facile.

In the interests of all past victims, and to prevent future ones, the wider agenda for justice and understanding would include: the Catholic culture of self-mortification; gender segregation; unloving institutional isolation; celibacy as a Trojan horse for nefarious action; the episodic complicity of the police; and the manipulative demand for blind obedience by a feudal hierarchy.

She would be solicitous to the point of smothering, and then demand total obedience as just recompense for her care and toil.

Primed for obedience, duty and sacrifice.

And more important, they believe that obedience to parents trains a child for obedience to God.

"Not for obedience of authority, but for participation".

If you're looking for obedience, then get a Labrador.