Sentence examples for were being obeyed from inspiring English sources

Those rules have been around for many years, but there was never before any way to police whether or not they were being obeyed, and it now appears that in many cases they were not.

The telecoms, which are facing about 40 pending lawsuits, believe they are protected by a separate law that says companies that give communications data to the government cannot be sued for doing so if they were obeying a warrant — or a certification from the attorney general that a warrant was not needed — and all federal statutes were being obeyed.

In a recently published plan for investment firms, the SIB made plain it wanted specific senior managers held responsible for ensuring that a given set of rules was being obeyed.

Yesterday, in finding out whether his court order was being obeyed, Justice Richard F. Braun of State Supreme Court in Manhattan ordered the city to turn over the mental health and discharge records of such inmates to lawyers who brought the class-action lawsuit on behalf of mentally ill inmates.

"All indications we have had in the past show that traffic laws are being obeyed by the companies testing here".

Its role is as "primary regulator", working closely with both directors and with the exchange administrators to make sure that membership rules are being obeyed.

Ironically, it is the slave master's religion that is being obeyed (as Audre Lorde has analyzed).

Use players who are out as judges, who stand next to the field to oversee everything and make sure that the rules are being obeyed.

Used to being obeyed, she is willful.

And he is accustomed to being obeyed, acclaimed and despised in about equal measure.

They demanded cash and jewelry and seemed to fire when they felt their orders were not being obeyed quickly enough, witnesses said.