Sentence examples for make it obey from inspiring English sources

The device, he found, was a brain teaser, frustrating his efforts to make it obey.

Maybe there's a vital, credible play cowering somewhere beneath the overheated language and overwrought situations, but the cast and the director Leah C. Gardiner can't make it obey.

"I emaciate prose and make it obey," Paul says in a tone that is almost threatening, and Mr. Hyde Pierce delivers this opening monologue with a savory combination of simmering viciousness and officious pedantry.

… Let's fight against capitalism and make it obey us".

"I strike it, stalk it, try to make it obey me.

Modern listeners have been taught never to conflate a singer with her protagonists, but Crutchfield can make it difficult to obey this injunction.

His first target were views that held that what makes some actions right is that they are commanded by some superior who has a power to sanction us so as to make it advantageous for us to obey the laws, and that we approve of actions because they are in our self-interest, either by their very nature or because of the laws of the superior (1725: 86– 86).

Officially, the speed limit on Interstate 5 is 70 miles an hour: a driver who obeys the law will make it between the two big cities in less than six hours.

Already, business executives and trade groups are arguing that those lottery-size windfalls, authorized under the sweeping law that overhauled the nation's financial regulatory system, will make it harder for companies to police themselves and will pit employees in search of a big payday against a company's effort to make sure it is obeying the law.

Another set of actions has resulted in a ruling that they claim makes it impossible for them to obey Judge Rakoff's orders to transfer Telsim stock to the court in New York.

PPI network also obeys this rule, making it distinguished from random network [ 20].