Sentence examples for disobedience with from inspiring English sources

Instead the girl cleans the kitchen and is rewarded for her disobedience with the gift of beauty.

And, in the pirate habit of punishing disobedience with torture, the combination of pettiness and authoritarianism can bring to mind a vindictive junior-high-school principal.

SIR You assert that the Iranian government inhabits a "paranoid atmosphere generated by a government that has deliberately associated any form of civil disobedience with alleged foreign plots".

Some listen to speeches or attend informal lectures; a few play guitars and smooch; some combine civil disobedience with obedient study late into the night.

The activists called for civil disobedience, with the emphasis on the "civil": "Come dressed as if for a business meeting — this is, in fact, serious business".

All five were released, but Mr Chao now faces a legal battle after prosecutors charged him with "serious disobedience with police".

Staley found a technical advisor, someone who had experience with complex civil disobedience actions with Greenpeace.

Their act of civil disobedience, along with a series of 17,000 household mailings Mr. Pinello paid for with $25,000 from his savings, was solely intended to force a same-sex marriage bill into the limelight in Albany.

The students have mounted a civil disobedience campaign with the aim of turning the average citizen against our government.

We have created great universities which are challenged in their capacity to accommodate our human needs of expression, anger, frustration and even civil disobedience together with the need to feel safe.

When the tools of nonviolent resistance — boycotts, public speech, civil disobedience — overlap with the domain in which they are applied, they are effective.