Sentence examples for how obedient from inspiring English sources

Now, the issue is how obedient he or she is to doctrine.

Pius then remarked to the people around, "Look how obedient he is... and next time be more careful".

But, of course, there is no contract, and I'll never fully be allowed in the club no matter how obedient I am.

He was testing how obedient volunteer "teachers" would be to an authority figure's instructions, even when being told to carry out apparently immoral acts.

The guy never stopped bragging about how well the bird was trained, how faithful it was to him and how obedient to his every whim and will.

The Republican National Committee began showing stronger support for new guidelines about how obedient a Republican must be in order to run for office.

Children learn only how to be obedient, how to follow orders, not how to understand and regulate their own impulses.

Herodotus is no naturalist but a historian showing how free men, obedient to their own laws, defeat arrogance and lawless despotism.

The lawsuit is the latest chapter in a long-simmering scandal that has engulfed the ministry once admired by conservative Christian parents for teaching them how to raise obedient, devout and chaste children since the 1960s.

Einstein didn't "fail math" as the oft-repeated urban myth says, but he did lock horns with the academics at the Luitpold Gymnasium whose methods did not lead him towards learning anything more than how to be obedient and play the game, which the young Einstein clearly was not of a mind to do.

Unless your dog knows how to be obedient off-leash and listen to you despite distractions, training to herd sheep will be difficult, if not impossible.