Sentence examples for exact obedience from inspiring English sources

Whatever the ruler's moral qualities and however he rules, possession of authority (shi) carries with it the leverage to exact obedience.

It gave the Greeks occasion to discourse with one another, how great might be the temperance and modesty of a Laconian army in old time, under their famous captains: Agesilaus, Lysander, or Leonidas, since they saw such discipline and exact obedience under a leader who perhaps was the youngest man in all the army.

Hume thought it obvious that political society could not exist without "exact obedience of the magistrate" but this is surely empiricism without the facts.

However, in practice there is no benefit from such an exact obedience of Newton's law, as the total momentum is not exactly conserved, because of integration errors arising from the fact that the particles have individual time steps.

The United States as now composed, have no power to exact obedience, or punish disobedience to their resolutions, either by pecuniary mulcts, by a suspension or divestiture of privileges, or in any other constitutional mode.

The United States, as now composed, have no powers to exact obedience, or punish disobedience to their resolutions.... ..

Her discipline, outlined in the best-selling "No Bad Dogs" and in the current hit book "Walkies" and on wildly popular television programs, is the "Woodhouse Way," a technique for exacting obedience from followers both human and canine.

But I suppose that most readers, knowingly or not, are looking for authority, not in the sense of that which exacts obedience, but in the root meaning of augmentation or increase.

Now this might indeed be how the law's voice sounds to those who feel no allegiance to the polity whose law it is, and it is how the law's voice should sound to those who relationship to it and to the polity is that of oppressed subject to alien sovereign: the law does speak to them in the threatening coercive tones of one who demands, and claims to have the power to exact, their obedience.

A strong ruler, Robert succeeded in exacting the obedience of his vassals even as he expanded concessions of fiefs from his ducal estates and from usurped church property to new and lower ranks of restless aristocrats.

Using a cruel moral high ground propelled by a waspish, bullying hypocrisy, "he can stoop to fawn and stoop low indeed", but "as he stalks the streets, his very face denotes his horror of the world's wickedness" and "from the poorer classes he exacted an unconditional obedience to set rules of conduct".