If a disobedient is punished by the law, it is not for civil disobedience, but for the recognised offences she commits, such as blocking a road or disturbing the peace, or trespassing, or damaging property, etc.
Disobedient security services helped finish Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines and Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia.Even when orders are obeyed, as Steinbeck noted, repression can ultimately strengthen the opposition.
He also sacked 60 potentially disobedient judges, and appointed many biddable idiots in their places.
Posing as a cross between the peacefully disobedient Gandhi and Scotland's more rumbustious Braveheart, a few days in jail might not go amiss.
He made her write out a list of rules and punishments, stipulating what would happen if she were disobedient.
Taliban field commanders have responded to NATO's intensified military campaign by becoming more radical and disobedient towards their nominal leaders hiding in Pakistan.
It may be able to fine disobedient airlines, or prevent travellers who had bought competitively priced tickets from boarding their flights.
A new custodial sentence for disobedient journalists has been introduced.The second ordinance, promulgated last week, severely restricts the autonomy of the thousands of NGOs that sprang up during the democratic 1990s.
Angels who came down to sleep with women also ended up there, together with disobedient stars.And so Hell might have remained, a club for unruly super-humans.
Lavinia despairs of clumsy language: "It is one thing to be merely prosaic, but to use words in a way that perverted their potential or denigrated their power was something that violated Lavinia's aesthetic principles".The hand of Lavinia's betrothed "fluttered involuntarily as if it were the only part of him sensitive enough to register emotion or disobedient enough to display it".
He has blamed disobedient subordinates for murderous attacks on civilians and for destroying previous ceasefires.
