Sentence examples for orders were obeyed from inspiring English sources

Orders were obeyed in some places, but Sanjiang resisted.

It was the edicts of the cloistered emperor, not the reigning one, that were obeyed, insofar as any orders were obeyed in a period of increasing collapse of central authority.

His conduct was worthy of the experience and science of our most approved and veteran Admirals, while the ardour and promptitude with which his orders were obeyed and his plans executed by the several Captains under his command, may have been rivalled, but can scarcely be exceeded in the most renowned of our naval exploits.

Disobedient security services helped finish Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines and Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia.Even when orders are obeyed, as Steinbeck noted, repression can ultimately strengthen the opposition.

Reno's aides, accustomed to having their cease-and-desist orders being obeyed when prosecutors like Charles La Bella were getting too close to paydirt, were stunned when Barrett told them he'd see them in court.

His orders are obeyed, and "horror, darkness, and dread rule the seraglio" (Letter 156).

The order was obeyed, after a fashion.

"Military police were posted to ensure that the order was obeyed.

As a letter from the US embassy to the state department in 1968 revealed, the order was obeyed.

He never gave a reason for this action, but his order was obeyed nonetheless, and the remaining "convicts" rejoined their fellow prisoners.

In Italy the orders that came in from abroad were obeyed".