Sentence examples for taught to obey from inspiring English sources

"At school, children are taught to obey," he said.

Chinese are taught to obey authority and are often loath to disagree with their bosses.

For example, this was the "top" - ie most recommended – comment under the item about headphones: They want to be taught to obey red lights first.

She quickly noticed that the atmosphere in hallways was like a military-style boot camp, with attendees taught to obey orders by rote.

However logical, examples like these have failed to garner respect, because to most Americans grammar does not inhere in linguistic rule-following generally but in a set of specific rules that they have been taught to obey.

Another loyal wife who was taught to "obey" her husband.

ST. GEORGE, Utah, Sept. 13 — The prosecution's star witness in the trial of the fundamentalist Mormon polygamist leader Warren S. Jeffs testified on Thursday that she was taught to either obey church leaders without question or face dire consequences.

Bahá'í children are taught to love and obey God as soon as they can understand the idea and should be taught to pray and meditate and to learn about spiritual things as early as possible.

"When I was in Scouts, we were taught to honor and obey and trust.

Mr. Strict taught Steffi to obey a series of basic "sit," "sit-stay," and "down-stay" commands in less than half an hour.

Having been raised in a Soviet-style system that taught them to obey orders and, above all, to avoid mistakes, they feared that they would fail — publicly and spectacularly.