Sentence examples for obedience for from inspiring English sources

They get prizes for obedience, for following the rules down to the last detail.

The Japanese "salaryman" traded loyalty, punishing hours and obedience for lifetime employment and security, and everybody benefited.But the idea was always something of a myth.

Viewed generally, Elizabeth's Irish policy had the distinction of having reduced the country to obedience for the first time since the invasion of Henry II.

Exchanging obedience for love comes naturally -- after all, we all were once children whose survival depended on the caprices of love.

Perhaps a feeling for religion contributed to this obedience; for zombi, the title whereby he was called, is the name for the Deity, in the Angolan tongue".

God's new covenant with Israel would be written on their hearts, so that they should no longer need to teach each other obedience, for young and old would know YHWH.

And as for the ethical code of my action, I must say that it was obedience-for obedience is really the ethical basis of the military profession.

DEVOUTS -- Devouts, 22percentt of adults, have "more traditional values," Mr. Miller said, like "faith, duty, obedience, respect for elders," and are concentrated in Africa, Asia and the Mideast.

Discipline, obedience, respect for authority -- these are all valuable attributes to be taught to the young.

"Not for obedience of authority, but for participation".

When T. H. Green set out in 1879 "to discover the true ground or justification for obedience to law," for example, he was looking for more than prudence alone can provide.