"A world war both preceded and followed by a civil war, in conjunction with the demands placed by total obedience to a religious order, make this gap of eight years not a very surprising one".
Nowadays leaders have to climb a tangled bureaucracy which demands total obedience.
"He told me Eta required total obedience.
There's something about the song's audacity: the kids sing with defiance about total obedience to an authority.
Once the founding fathers, idealists and ideologues like Nkrumah (a lonely figure who shared an unlikely friendship with Queen Elizabeth) give way to a new breed of authority, the book becomes heavily dominated by the self-styled giant: "a flamboyant, autocratic figure, accustomed to living in style and demanding total obedience". Africa has produced many different versions of this figure.
Same thing: sucking up, panicking, slaving away, total obedience to the rules, fighting for your livelihood before a critical, heartless, nitpicking, unsupportive panel of judges, AKA Ofsted.
He requires total obedience from everyone on earth, as he is in place not for just one tribe but for all creation.
All they have to do is get rid of the piece that says this is conditional on total obedience to the Communist party.
The institution that had shaped him, and to which he had shown total obedience since the age of 18, had deserted him.
She would be solicitous to the point of smothering, and then demand total obedience as just recompense for her care and toil.
They deploy untold power and enjoy total obedience as commanders-in-chief, but in the civilian domain are checked and balanced at every turn by a fractious polity.
