Sentence examples for refuses to obey from inspiring English sources

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It often petulantly refuses to obey your commands or, worse, does the opposite of what you want.

I am interested in vindicating the authority of this court, which I feel must be vindicated when anyone wilfully refuses to obey a lawful order of the court.

Holmes' observation that the law will put a recalcitrant promisor in prison if he refuses to obey an order of specific performance also stands in need of qualification.

In Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein, the scientist Victor Frankenstein refuses to obey the wishes of his monstrous creation and make a female of the same species.

A limp arm dangling from my left shoulder, which refuses to obey when I try, with the help of someone else, to lift — there he is!

Ordinarily, when a defendant a lawsuit refuses to obey helcourt ordet, the plaintiff can go belback to the judge and ask that the defendant be cited for contempt.

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The Venezuelan government refused to obey.

The barons refused to obey the crown.

Others simply refused to obey orders.

Many Catholics would like to refuse to obey.

"They are refusing to obey the injunctions" of the Mujao.

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