Sentence examples for secure obedience from inspiring English sources

Certainly, highly illiberal regimes have used technological devices to suppress individual freedom and to secure obedience to the state: the nightmare vision of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four (1949), with its telescreens and sophisticated torture, has provided literary demonstration of this reality, should one be needed.

One view, familiar from the classical positivist theories of Austin and Bentham (see The Nature of Law, § 2), tells us that the law, as addressed to the citizens, consists in a set of commands or orders backed by threats to secure obedience from those who might otherwise disobey.

His departure triggered a further attempt to secure his obedience.

To secure such obedience is the function of a proceeding for contempt.

For both Thomas Hobbes and John Austin, political authority in the de facto sense simply amounts to the capacity of a person or group of persons to maintain public order and secure the obedience of most people by issuing commands backed by sanctions.

Richelieu proved an indefatigable servant of the French crown, intent on securing absolute obedience to the monarchy and on raising its international prestige.

He also managed to secure professions of obedience from a number of southern bishops, including Eadwulf of Lindsey and Tidferth of Dummoc.

He secured professions of obedience from all but three of the 37 bishops consecrated during his time as archbishop.

Judge Williams told him he put his victims "in fear" by using juju rituals to force their obedience and secure their silence.

He also secured a profession of obedience from the newly installed abbot of St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury.

A view taken by many apologists for massive surveillance holds that liberty is what is left once you have subtracted all the obedience and good behavior required by government to secure for the people a long life.