Sentence examples similar to passively obeyed from inspiring English sources

He objects both to the doctrine that a subject must passively obey his government no matter how tyrannical it is and to the Lockean thesis that citizens have a natural right to revolution whenever their rulers violate their contractual commitments to the people.

On November 18, he commanded his followers to drink cyanide-adulterated punch, an order that the vast majority of them passively and inexplicably obeyed.

Since the implementation of the current media reform, however, we are blatantly excluded from management decisions, and we have to passively accept guidance and obey the instructions of our managers.

4. The theory of "passive obedience" is the theory that if a ruler gives a command contrary to God's commands, one may obey it passively rather than actively, i.e. not actively carry out the command, but not resist the punishment the ruler then inflicts.

I obeyed.

They obeyed.

Everyone obeyed".

Many obeyed.

And the tyrants obeyed.

He obeyed reluctantly.

Corporate types obeyed.