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Discover LudwigThe word "disobeying" is correct in written English
It is used when someone fails to follow a command, rule, or law. Example: "The child was disobeying his parents by refusing to do his homework." Alternatives include "defying" or "ignoring."
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disobeying
verb
Present participle of disobey
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But it was exhilarating to watch kids hopping over metro barriers, smoking weed and shouting, walking wherever they wanted, disobeying every single one of the tight rules that normally control access to the station.
But a case against a railway in 1909, for disobeying price controls, established the principle that companies were responsible for their employees' actions, and America now has several hundred thousand rules that carry some form of criminal penalty.
Already banned from travel for several years and facing a series of charges, including "disobeying the rightful ruler" and "inciting international hostility against the kingdom," he was remanded in custody on April 15th.These two cases are among a string of arrests and prosecutions of human-rights defenders, would-be reformers and various other critics.
See article.Don't nod offSouth Korea's intelligence service said that the defence minister of North Korea had been executed by anti-aircraft fire for falling asleep in a meeting attended by the North's leader, Kim Jong Un, and for disobeying Mr Kim's orders.
Mr Crespo disowns this faction, calling them traitors for disobeying Mr Guzmán's call to abandon armed struggle in favour of peaceful political action.
Mr Mas may be taken to court for disobeying the constitutional court.
Was Mr Feith then disobeying his boss when he set up a Pentagon operation to cherry-pick intelligence on the insubstantial connections between Iraq and al-Qaeda?In other areas, Mr Feith has a selective memory.
Mr Shater in particular, will not forgive him, not only for disobeying the group by launching his own presidential campaign, but also for calling for more transparency in the Brotherhood, particularly in its finances, which are the source of Mr Shater's power.Polls for now suggest Mr Moussa and Mr Abolfotoh are in the lead, but these do not yet account for Mr Morsy.
Arabs contrast the harsh punishment meted out to Iraq for disobeying UN resolutions with the world's lenient treatment of Israel, which has disobeyed far more, and for longer.Hardly surprising, then, that the first cracks in the Pax Americana should have appeared on the Iraqi front.
Our Mercosur, they said, is bigger than both of us.Paraguay's Congress voted to impeach President Raul Cubas for disobeying a Supreme Court order to send his ally General Lino Oviedo back to jail.Ecuador floated its currency and got a new finance minister, her predecessor having resigned after Congress meddled with his budget.
Its current account swung into deficit for the first time since the second quarter of 1999.Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez sent troops to seize the country's privately owned rice mills, accusing them of disobeying his price controls.
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