Séléka continues to pillage and kill, despite his orders for the group to disband and lay down its weapons.
Despite his orders that G.E. must shed businesses that are not No. 1 or No. 2 in their markets, Welch also said, "Being Number 1 or 2 in hula hoops would not do very much good".
He is still refusing to obey the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, despite his orders to accept defeat at the hands of the incumbent president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and to help quell protests, which have anyway got a lot smaller and less frequent.
In cases like Rao's, a husband throws acid on a woman, to "punish" her, either because she is too attractive and the husband suspects her "fidelity" if she speaks to other men, or because she is "disobedient" and insists on going out to work despite his orders to stay home as a housewife.
But the weather steadily improved that morning, he said, and the workers' instinct should have been to rush into the office, despite his standing order that they stay off the roads and despite, well, human nature.
Despite the incongruity of his order on the camps, Roosevelt said, "The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of mind and heart.
The local Socialist candidate has refused to pull out despite his party ordering him to do so, and the result remains hard to predict.
Despite his premature withdrawal order, it was Chauvel's plan of attack that won the battle.
Despite his commander's order to remain on base, he joined a patrol into Mozambique and crossed the border on 7 January 1974.
Kerviel was found guilty, despite his protestations, and ordered to pay €4.9bn to the bank.
