Sentence examples for why obey from inspiring English sources

Followers of the Dutch theologian Jacobus Arminius asked the question every child asks on first encountering Calvinism, and to which Calvinism never produced a satisfactory answer: if one's salvation depends solely on God's grace, and if there is nothing man can do to affect it, why obey any moral code at all? Arminians held that there must be a role in Christianity for human will.

In Austin's view, law does not provide any unique motivational force, and why citizens obey it i.e., the reason for which they obey it is therefore not important.

Until now, no one has been able to explain why trees obey this rule.

Dan Reiter and Allan Stam suggest in their 2002 book Democracies at War that such social factors account for the superiority of democracies in winning wars, while my book Why People Obey the Law (2006) links these same social factors to everyday deference to law and legal authorities.

Koh claims that these explanations of why nations obey or comply with international law; power, national interest, national identity and identity formation, are both persuasive and complementary but that they fail to fully explain why nations obey international law.

"He would tell me that if immigration ever found out, my son and I would be deported instantly, which is why I obeyed".

Only gravity is free to pervade all parts of the universe, which is one of the reasons why it obeys a different set of rules from the other forces.It is this second interpretation that is invoked by Dr Karch and Dr Randall.

The problem of explaining why we should obey the laws of nature or indeed, why we should obey any set of norms is one of the most enduring in philosophy; it would be rash to suppose that a solution can be found in Grotius.

Why do individuals obey authority?

Why did she obey Miss Fox?

(Felix Salmon) Why do cities obey Zipf's Law?