Sentence examples similar to obedient to the rules from inspiring English sources
In Kingsley Amis's The Alteration (1976), the Reformation has not happened and England remains a Roman Catholic country, obedient to the religious rule from Rome of a Yorkshire-born pontiff, who seems to be a caricature of Harold Wilson, British prime minister at the time Amis was writing.
How can my nephew be loyal to his gay uncle if he is also obedient to the exclusionary Scouting rule?
So I'm slowly unlearning the habits of an adult lifetime of obedient adherence to the rules of the road – because if you stop for a red light on a bike here, people just think you're weird, or French, or something.
No longer the "Spanish Netherlands" ruled by the Habsburg king and obedient to the pope, the Dutch were a Protestant republic -- fiercely independent and proud.
It's somehow less than obedient to the Olympic spirit.
Obedient to the edicts of the diary, he has gone on to Barcelona.
Its ramshackle provincial administration is barely in contact with, let alone obedient to, the central government.
Most Chinese photographers are very obedient to the Chinese Communist Party's word.
China wants someone who is both popular in Hong Kong and obedient to the leadership in Beijing.
Eventually, the Bible says, many priests of Israel "became obedient" to the faith of Peter and John.
Her long curls, obedient to the laws of static electricity, stuck to his synthetic-mix jacket.
