The colonel, who says marching drills instill obedience, said his class covered military history, military customs and military courtesies.
"The result may be a new era in party-Army relations that will instill obedience, but also fears within the P.L.A. leadership about who will be the next to go," Mr. Saunders said.
But the local Democratic club is one of those vanishing vestiges of city life, like the trolley and the automat, and City Hall, in most cases, no longer controls the kind of inflated payroll that can instill obedience in a hungry populace.
Instill respect in your enemies.
Such displays were a way not only to instill confidence and obedience in the awed trainees but, as word spread, to cow an unsophisticated enemy.
This has created a crucial power disparity: the small cadre of church leaders have became the sole interpreters of the Bible on Old Colonies, and because the Bible is seen as the law, leaders use this control over the scripture to instill order and obedience.
This has created a crucial power disparity: The small cadre of church leaders have became the sole interpreters of the Bible on Old Colonies, and because the Bible is seen as the law, leaders use this control over the scripture to instill order and obedience. .
But the gaokao has contributed to concerns that China's education system overemphasizes rote memorization and instills values of obedience and conformity, not critical thinking.
Military experience, mandated in Israel, instills leadership, teamwork, improvisation, obedience and sacrifice, and means students are older and more focused.
For the Neo-Assyrians, mass executions seem to have been not only designed to instill terror and to enforce obedience, but also, it can seem, as proofs of their might that they took pride in.
Virtue is its own reward for the winner of this morality game designed to instill in children qualities such as obedience, honesty, and humility, and discourage vices like obstinacy, falsehood, and pride.
