Sentence examples for simply obeying from inspiring English sources

The Law Department, in response to Mr. Kelly's comments, said it was simply obeying the law.

I was simply obeying a profound vision that had imposed itself on me.

She thought he was simply obeying her instructions to drop to the ground when under fire.

Just as predictably, the defendant, now in his sixties and a born-again Christian, insists he was simply obeying orders.

Prosecutors said they did not indict the nine agents because they were simply obeying Mr. Won's instructions — a decision that the political opposition called a whitewash on Friday.

He has repeatedly said that he will not prosecute people who were simply obeying orders ("this is a time for reflection, not retribution").

Most of the students simply obeyed my instructions.

He simply obeyed the diktat of FIFA that allows no discretion in these matters.

"We expect most people will simply obey the law," he said.

"Once a preference is acquired," a top scientist at Frito-Lay wrote in a 1979 internal memorandum, "most people do not change it, but simply obey it".

As TV Licensing said on the day the new rules were introduced, they "expect that most people will simply obey the law".