Sentence examples for orders were ignored from inspiring English sources

Three times his orders were ignored.

It is said that Prot issued an edict in 2007 that the bank should not process dollar transactions for clients in Sudan, Iran and Cuba but his orders were ignored.

Last year the president's own Delivery Unit, part of the presidency charged with making sure that his wishes are carried out, reported that more than 50% of his policies and orders were ignored by ministers.

With those words, Mr. Bassiouni captured the challenge of the commission's work: what was the nature of the repression — systematic and orchestrated by the state, as the opposition insists, or the authorities' acting arbitrarily and independent of one another across a landscape in which even the king's orders were ignored, as Mr. Bassiouni suggests?

Police say they repeatedly told the kids to "disperse" and stop blocking the sidewalk, but their orders were ignored.

In an imperial decree the following month, Norton summoned the Army to depose the elected officials of the U.S. Congress: Norton's orders were ignored by the Army, and Congress likewise continued without any formal acknowledgement of the decree.

The discovery illustrated one advantage of huge bureaucracies: some orders are ignored.

With no one left to carry out his orders, the decree was ignored.

End result: the order was ignored by the state government.

Too often, legislation isn't carefully considered, and regular order is ignored.

Our drinks order was ignored and we were served the strongest margaritas we'd ever tasted.