We leave out that this freedom was needed in large part so that the Puritans could obey the Fourth Commandment -- "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy" -- with a zealotry that had deeply alienated their countrymen back home.
In 1926, Westinghouse Electric Corporation introduced the world to Televox, a robot that could obey a human voice.
The bishops could obey the law and then try to persuade their flock not to use contraception.
After saying he could not turn over the Watergate tapes & other documents to Judge Sirica, he reconsidered the matter and decided he could obey the Judge's order.
"If Puffy showed up here in a limo, he could come in as long as he had a reservation and could obey my rules," he said.
Before the law was passed, the only directive emergency technicians could obey was an out-of-hospital "do not resuscitate" form specifying that no cardiopulmonary resuscitation be tried if a patient stopped breathing or had no pulse.
Of course, a glance at the audience for the Encores! staging of the musical "70, Girls, 70," in which this endearing song is sung, suggested that there weren't too many present who could obey Ebb's order to hop into a cab when the show was over and take some flowers to Grandma.
Thus, for Leibniz, a miracle occurs when a creature performs an action that does not flow from its own natural powers, and so bodies could obey laws of motion not grounded in their own natural powers only through the advent of a perpetual miracle.
On marijuana legalization: "My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey.
He could obey tactical necessity and protect the bridgeheads against a French counter-attack from the south; he could strike west towards Paris with his Corps; or he could carry out the dash to the Channel.
