Sentence examples for encourage obedience from inspiring English sources

It's an amusing idea that misses the whole point about the processions, designed by the Shia clergy to encourage obedience, inculcate the idea of an eternal martyrdom and maintain their grip.

"[The Foo Fighters] have a platform and should be using it to encourage obedience to God; instead they teach every person who will listen all things contrary to him: fornication, adultery, idolatry, fags".

Stewart's logic around the church's relationship with secular authorities was flawed because Witnesses believed it was their "Christian responsibility to be good citizens", and encourage obedience to the law, the submission said.

Rather, it lies in the simple moral truths that Scripture contains, which encourage obedience to the state (Ch. 13).

Her father encouraged obedience, too, while her husband hit her through three pregnancies.

Tasked with protecting young people, these once-trusted figures and institutions are instead serving the interests of the state, which is less concerned about educating the next generation, and more concerned with encouraging obedience and extracting wealth.

If you have younger siblings, help them with their homework and their chores, be a model of good behavior for them and try to encourage their obedience to you just as you are obedient to your parents.

The purpose of leadership is neither to be "messianic" or to encourage blind obedience.

In 2003 the UN human development report noted that Arab education curriculums seem to encourage submission, obedience, subordination and compliance, rather than free critical thinking".

Wise words to counter the UN report that "Arab education curriculums seem to encourage submission, obedience, subordination and compliance, rather than free critical thinking", and to back up Paul Vallely's conclusion that students "require input … to open up to them the richness of Islamic traditions that constituted the religion before the arrival of oil-rich Salafi fundamentalism".

"'Confucius' encourages passive obedience to tyranny".