The word 'disobey' is a perfectly correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when referring to disregarding or failing to comply with a rule or order. For example: "The school principal warned the students not to disobey the rules in the classroom, but some of them chose to ignore his instructions."
Had the police continued with this ill-considered action, journalists might have been forced to disobey a court order so as to protect their source.
Most of them had been brought up by fearsome women of authority: nannies, matrons, distant and detached mothers, whom one did not challenge or disobey.
We have joined with our students on a weekly basis to think through the effects of managerialism and financialisation and how, when there is no other way, we can disobey in everyday acts of resistance.
He rejects the dissidents' claim to be acting under a constitutional provision that enshrines the right to disobey a government that subverts democracy, arguing that they are engaged in a coup similar to one which briefly overthrew him last April.Another who could use a miracle is Cesar Gaviria, secretary-general of the Organisation of American States (OAS).
They complain that Chinese companies destroy national parks in their hunt for resources and that they routinely disobey even rudimentary safety rules.
But the plant continued to disobey the rules.
But in eastern Congo several rebel commanders disobey orders from Kinshasa, Congo's capital, and still look to their former sponsors in Kigali, Rwanda's capital.
The massacre had been ordered directly by Hitler: impossible to disobey it.
Second, he says, each individual soldier "is not only allowed, but obliged to disobey any order he or she feels might violate human dignity, which is probably unique in the world".The Bundeswehr reinforces this message wherever it can.
And Germans can get quite aggressive if people disobey the rules, even unwritten ones.
"They are in a quandary," says Tewfik Aclimandos, a political scientist, "Either they can play the game by the Brothers' rules, which risks losing and being stuck with them for a very long time, or they can opt to disobey, which is risky because the public is exhausted and the outcome is unknown".
