Sentence examples for demanding obedience from inspiring English sources

Albert Gore Sr. looms over every page of "The Prince of Tennessee," a white-haired Shakespearean patriarch demanding obedience and dedication, even in death; more insistently in death.

In the 1960s, the Catholic church still loomed large in the secular as well as Protestant imagination as an authoritarian and repressive force, demanding obedience from states and individuals, and interfering in everything from library books to birth control.

He also improved accountability, not by demanding obedience, but by commanding respect.

If a guru is a teacher claiming super-human powers, or demanding obedience, Goenka was definitely not that.

Instead of reasoning with those with whom we disagree, we demand obedience or threaten recrimination.

Parents are less likely to demand obedience with explicit rules and lectures.

Rosario, whose high school coach, Bob Hurley at St .Anthony, demanded obedience as much as Donovan, always thought it was a two-way street between coach and player.

Cablevision officials say that the union will demand "obedience" from workers, and that unions are a corrupt vestige of a less free age.

The whip is used chiefly to reinforce the leg aid for control, to command attention, and to demand obedience, but it can be used as a punishment in cases of deliberate rebellion.

"The majority of American Jews support the president, support the two-state solution and do not feel that they have been well represented by organizations that demand obedience to every wish of the Israeli government.

"Chaos is the basis for the individual," he says, though he always demanded obedience from his art students during the 22 years he was the head of the Düsseldorf Art Academy.