Like the Spartans, Ricky was perfect in obedience to his laws.
|
|
Congress can ask a federal court to compel obedience to a subpoena.
|
|
"Blind obedience to a corrupt culture has serious consequences," Judge Anderson continued.
|
|
Stuck in obedience to the NRA, or party purity tests, or big donors.
|
|
Mr Madkhali tells followers to show unflinching obedience to the wali al-amr.
|
|
They imposed obedience to corporate capitalism and globalization within academia and the press.
|
|
It dictated absolute obedience to the leader over concerns of right and wrong.
|
|
That require analysis and strategic planning, as opposed to obedience to a norm.
|
|
Rather, followers are bound by their loyalty and obedience to a single leader.
|
|
God's mercy isn't only a mechanism for reviving the possibility of obedience to divine law.
|
|
But Sessions defended it by invoking a Biblical verse that urges obedience to government power.
|
|
But while the military demands obedience to authority, it also prizes a certain reckless audacity.
|
|
Batman has lost faith in the government, while Superman has pledged his obedience to it.
|
|
And in the South, Protestant clergy used Christianity to justify slaves' obedience to slave owners.
|
|
" He added that the only requirement to be labeled a conservative is "total obedience to Trump.
|
|
Overzealous obedience to this hydration advice has uncovered a dark underbelly to superior hydration practices: overhydration.
|
|
More than 2,800 pups are put to the test in categories ranging from obedience to agility.
|
|
"In simple obedience to duty as they understood it," reads the inscription at Arlington's Confederate Memorial.
|
|
The goal is to nudge people toward behaviors ranging from energy conservation to obedience to the Party.
|
|
"Blind obedience to a corrupt culture has serious consequences," Anderson said, according to the US attorney's statement.
|
|
"We once again reaffirm our absolute obedience to the Holy Father and Holy Mother Church," it said.
|
|
The poor, he says, are the ones who are most affected by climate change, so our care for the environment must spring not just from obedience to God's commands to care for his creation but also from our obedience to Christ's care for the poorest and most vulnerable.
|
|
Pure obedience to these gods, whom you were created to serve, results in a less-than-happy ending.
|
|
All this has started to chip away at a culture of obedience to family, religious leaders and governments.
|
|
Without the basic morality and obedience to a higher authority religion teaches, liberal democracy would not be possible.
|
|
Powerful forces who hiss and howl at the mere mention of God, morality and obedience to the Constitution.
|
|
If Germany's obedience to rules got it into its low-investment funk, perhaps new rules can get it out.
|
|
He said he cooperated in the investigation and accepted the pope&aposs decision out of obedience to the church.
|
|
The second thing within that was a vow of obedience to her, in terms of a master/slave relationship.
|
|
Unlike their jihadist cousins, though, these Salafists preach absolute obedience to an earthly ruler, in this case Mr. Hifter.
|
|
Such whacky statutes sow seeds of distrust, which blossoms into inconsistent obedience to the comprehensive, overarching rule of law.
|
|
She and Mack both pledged a lifelong "vow of obedience" to the alleged cult leader, according to a former member.
|
|
His was caused not by ecclesiastical politicians who preferred obedience to free enquiry, but by muscle-wasting amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
|
|
An earlier conversation with Margaery, who talks up the Sparrow, pushes him over the edge of obedience to the gods.
|
|
What you think, what you say, and what you do must reflect obedience to religious authority — not your own judgment.
|
|
"I recognize, and offer my support and obedience, to the transition government led by the president, Juan Guaido," Chirinos said.
|
|
Yes, abuse could happen, said Barr, but he sandwiched this acknowledgement in a call for total obedience to law enforcement.
|
|
Now, after a lifetime of obedience to his masters, Frank is old, decrepit and alone, seemingly abandoned by his family.
|
|
Lumbering and implacable, she bears down on her victims in zombielike obedience to the tiny voice emanating from her uterus.
|
|
It brings about a blind obedience to grand political schemes, such as the effort to limit Beijing's population to 753m people.
|
|
Begun in 1961 by Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram, the series of tests was designed to probe a subject's obedience to authority.
|
|
And Islam has a lot to say about loyalty and obedience to states that allow Muslims to live safely and devoutly.
|
|
His obedience to the National Rifle Association, regardless of the brutality of the mass murders in Orlando, is weak and shameful.
|
|
And since 2010, Mr. McConnell has been convinced that his interests are best served through strict obedience to the Republican base.
|
|
Church officials say the interviews allow bishops to get to know youth better and determine their religious habits and obedience to God.
|
|
" On the last charge, the complaint accuses Sessions of "misuse of Romans 13 to indicate the necessity of obedience to secular law.
|
|
So it has marshaled the state's religious apparatus to condemn the jihadists and proclaim the religious duty of obedience to the rulers.
|
|
A major tenet of official Saudi Islamic teaching is obedience to rulers — hardly a precept that encourages terrorism intended to break nations.
|
|
But society's obsession with the way women look is less about beauty than about obedience to a punishing external standard — and power.
|
|
If the cadets are gesturing like Nazis -- glorifying their obedience to a "hard-ass" leader, who exactly are they all collectively terrorizing?
|
|
In "The Story of My Life," Sullivan described how teaching obedience to the deaf and blind girl had to precede teaching language.
|
|
Witnesses in the trial, however, testified that the organization psychologically manipulated and abused its members and demanded total obedience to its leaders.
|
|
"You don't owe any obedience to someone who sadistically celebrates that the humanitarian aid doesn't enter a country that needs it," Guaido said.
|
|
"We reaffirm once again our absolute obedience to the Holy Father and the Holy Mother Church," a statement on the group's website said.
|
|
At the postwar Nuremberg Trials, the idea was established that obedience to an illegal order does not absolve an individual of criminal responsibility.
|
|
The people of Saudi Arabia are taught in school that Islam requires obedience to any ruler whose policies are not inconsistent with Islam.
|
|
But President Xi Jinping has also created new ways to put himself and his message of patriotic obedience to the fore this year.
|
|
Each of our religious traditions, Islam included, regard hospitality to those different from us as a sign of faith and obedience to God.
|
|
Her approach had previously consisted mainly of ruling things out: no single-market membership, no free movement of labour, no obedience to foreign judges.
|
|
It's comforting in at least the following 10 ways, none of which involve obedience to authority, public recognition, promotions, raises, or fear of unemployment.
|
|
The group of hardcore Euroskeptics dubbed themselves "Spartans" for their singleminded willingness to hold the line, to sacrifice anything in obedience to their convictions.
|
|
The point was made by one of the most famous experiments in psychology, the "obedience to authority" test conducted by Stanley Milgram in 1961.
|
|
LOVELESS is trying to bring attention to what he sees as the mirage of the justice system and society's blind obedience to power structures.
|
|
And this practice, on the meditation cushion, can help you conduct your daily affairs more reflectively and less reactively, with less obedience to emotions.
|
|
In a recent Atlantic profile of the vice president, McKay Coppins wrote that Pence's faith mandates obedience to temporal as well as heavenly authority.
|
|
She said Mr. Raniere told her the secret sorority began after three women offered damaging collateral to seal lifetime vows of obedience to him.
|
|
But this incident has highlighted "power hara" and the obedience to authority and unwavering loyalty to the team that are highly valued in Japan.
|
|
Another aspect of this stream of Islam is the belief that Saudi citizens must give absolute obedience to their ruler and not question authority.
|
|
The brothers take vows of celibacy, poverty and obedience to the gospel way of life that values simplicity, justice and care for the earth.
|
|
This does not necessarily mean blind obedience to polls, but it does mean identifying and advancing policies that improve the lives of their voters.
|
|
Rather, Los Angeles in those transitional centuries is representative of any place where the state can neither win obedience to its will nor enforce it.
|
|
Like Fang, he supported the Communist revolution, but less critically, and in his memoir, he confesses some shame over his obedience to the party's authority.
|
|
By instilling values such as obedience to authority, promptness in attendance and organizing the time according to bell ringing helped students prepare for future employment.
|
|
"Unlike Katie McGinty, I am not a hyper-partisan, reflexive ideologue who thinks he has to give blind obedience to his party's nominee," Toomey said.
|
|
"You don't owe any obedience to someone who sadistically, celebrates that the humanitarian aid doesn't enter a country that needs it," Guaido said on Saturday.
|
|
The all-male top leaders of the Knights of Malta are not clerics, but they take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience to the pope.
|
|
Sentiments expressed at the party congress have been echoed by pro-government columnists, who have called for "obedience" to the "chief" since Mr. Davutoglu's resignation.
|
|
Mr. Hill takes his shots at hate-filled talk radio, at false piety, at lemming-like obedience to anyone who claims to be a leader.
|
|
He has been attracted to subjects that push against, or well past, the clearly marked boundaries of propriety and obedience to authority in Japanese life.
|
|
China has been following a policy it calls the "Sinicisation" of religion, trying to root out foreign influences and enforce obedience to the Communist Party.
|
|
He ordered schools to display a list he drew up of 12 "Thai" values, including obedience to elders, "correctly" understanding democracy and loyalty to the monarch.
|
|
It is an increasingly attractive idea to young evangelicals, who believe obedience to God's laws is a higher calling than loyalty to politicians or political parties.
|
|
"As an attorney, Mr. Neff should realize that a civilized society requires obedience to the law, including those laws he didn't happen to like," McSwain said.
|
|
In her transformation, some saw the evolution of American women in the 20th century: "from careful traditional obedience to cosmic awareness," wrote the critic Ruth Whitman.
|
|
He has clearly taken charge, doing so in a way that implicitly affirms both obedience to authority and a kind of above-the-law monarchical privilege.
|
|
In addition to performing humiliating penance, he had to swear obedience to the pope, make a series of concessions to the church and eventually face rebellion.
|
|
Specifically, his fellow church members are charging him with "the misuse of Romans 13 to indicate the necessity of obedience to secular law," among other offenses.
|
|
And therefore, [the results were due to] obedience to authority, and it's not the evolution of cruel behavior in the situation of a prison-like environment.
|
|
" He added, "If I didn't have this conviction, some moral certainty of grace, and of acting in obedience to it, I would not dare act like this.
|
|
But in Dr. King's view, they were betraying their fellow human beings by choosing obedience to social norms above a higher form of justice, informed by love.
|
|
Bersani said that under Renzi the PD had become an "arrogant" party, where free debate had given way to a demand for blind obedience to the leader.
|
|
" As embodiments of the spectacle, celebrities necessarily "renounce all autonomous qualities in order to identify [themselves] with the general law of obedience to the course of things.
|
|
When a tincture of spookiness yields a restlessness, a wandering, when for an evening or two the very flesh of the universe jags from obedience to obsidian.
|
|
Lembo started training Lonnie in obedience to build her confidence, and the pup couldn't get enough, eventually showing off her moves in the 2017 Masters of Agility.
|
|
He outlined a separation of roles: military obedience to civilian leaders in areas of strategic or political discretion, and civilian deference to the military on operational matters.
|
|
To carelessly give a candidate for the highest office in the land a pass and to not demand obedience to our founding documents will lead to ruin.
|
|
Germans' legendary obedience to authority is attributed to Luther's insistence on separating spiritual and worldly authorities (which princes in his day found useful in suppressing a peasants' revolt).
|
|
In countries steeped in Islam, leaders benefited for too long from a religious tradition of obedience to the ruler, even a bad one, to prevent discord among Muslims.
|
|
That "something better" will almost surely be walking the streets of heaven, surrounded by the generations of people pointed there by his faithful obedience to proclaim the Gospel.
|
|
" Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran would regularly use the General Assembly to assert that the U.S. did 9/11 and to chastise Western countries for their "obedience to Satan.
|
|
So-called "rehab" centers for militants employed Wahhabi clerics to preach that obedience to the king trumped individual decisions to go and fight in defense of Muslims overseas.
|
|
"The only difference they have is that they believe in total obedience to the ruler, and see that as a religious duty," says Jamal Khashoggi, a veteran Saudi journalist.
|
|
Wahhabism has been molded over the years to serve the interests of the monarchy, emphasizing obedience to the rulers and condemning terrorist attacks, even against those seen as apostates.
|
|
It is hypnotizing to watch a man who has acknowledged your rules, your steadfast obedience to them, and who then tells those rules he does not care about them.
|
|
This would have given legal cover to General Padrino and the high command to declare their obedience to the opposition-controlled national assembly, of which Mr Guaidó is the speaker.
|
|
"He demands from his people and subordinates complete obedience to his leadership, because the country is on the verge of imminent invasion from the US and South Korea," Ko said.
|
|
Although the play is named after her father, it's Annie who emerges as the most compelling character, a talented, ambitious young woman shackled by her resigned obedience to the paterfamilias.
|
|
Serving at Xi's discretion As Xi's hold on power in China continues to tighten, complete obedience to the party and its leadership is being given even greater emphasis in Beijing.
|
|
Well, contrary to popular myth (and Mr. Trump's rhetoric), immigrants to the United States also outperform native-born Americans in some ways, including business creation and obedience to the law.
|
|
Even Benjamin Franklin, among the most heterodox leaders, proposed Moses crossing the Red Sea as the new nation's emblem and "rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God" as its motto.
|
|
According to the United Nations, the regime "operates an all-encompassing indoctrination machine that takes root from childhood to propagate an official personality cult and to manufacture absolute obedience" to Kim.
|
|
Epstein has pleaded not guilty and his attorneys have stated that he has maintained a "spotless" record with "meticulous obedience" to the law since he pleaded guilty to charges in Florida.
|
|
She refers to Stanley Milgram (of the "obedience to authority" experiment) and Philip Zimbardo (of the Stanford prison experiment), to remind us that scientistic nomenclature can shape behavior in troubling ways.
|
|
The royals have marshaled the religious establishment to address the kingdom's conservative population, condemning the Islamic State as a deviant sect and preaching obedience to the rulers as a religious duty.
|
|
Both the Pennsylvania grand jury report and subsequent reporting make it abundantly clear that a culture of obedience to clergy, and of shame and confusion surrounding sex, kept many children silent.
|
|
People here were stunned because Macau has a reputation for obsequious obedience to Beijing as well as chronic corruption, organized crime and limited tolerance for labor unions and other independent organizations.
|
|
Although "Agunot" takes place in the anytime of folklore, Agnon sees the situation through a twentieth-century lens, emphasizing the high psychological and erotic cost of obedience to convention and authority.
|
|
These are mostly the scenes with Queen Katherine, formerly of Aragon, for whom faultless chastity and obedience to her husband weren't enough to outweigh her "failure" to provide a male heir.
|
|
" It added that "Internet celebrities" and influential microblog personalities, known as Big Vs, "must correctly use their influence, exemplify obedience to laws and regulations, shoulder social responsibility and actively spread positive energy.
|
|
Also excluded were believers who "deliver themselves up to the protection and service of another prince" in a foreign land—such as a "Mahometan" with "blind obedience to the Mufti of Constantinople".
|
|
In asking for bail, Epstein's attorneys had touted his "spotless 14-year record" with "meticulous obedience" to the law since he pleaded guilty and was required to register as a sex offender.
|
|
"The VAT has to do with the political will and is part of the obedience to our guardians... and in everybody's interest," Jamal Daoud, a lawmaker and candidate said on social media.
|
|
Is patriotism still not defined by a blind obedience to the flag and a willingness to fight wars abroad as opposed to dealing with the injustice that people confront here at home?
|
|
But in Japan, where American football barely registers, the illegal move during a college game has touched off a national debate about "power hara," or obedience to authority and unwavering team loyalty.
|
|
There were a whole set of moral tests involved with obedience to the movement, breaking ranks when necessary, facing unpleasant truths, pioneering a collective way of living, whether feminist, Marxist or libertarian.
|
|
Before her journey through Niger to Libya, a spiritual priest practicing a form of black magic known in Nigeria as "juju" had forced her to swear an oath of obedience to her trafficker.
|
|
"For us as Christians, walking together is not a ploy to strengthen our own positions, but an act of obedience to the Lord and love for our world," Francis said, speaking in Italian.
|
|
"The lesson from this narration is that obedience to the caliph is an obligation if they rule by the Shariah," he says, referring to the legal code of Islam based on the Quran.
|
|
Republican retirements and election returns in 28503 and 22019 strike fear in the hearts of Republicans, yet they continue to practice blind obedience to the most unpopular and widely despised politician in memory.
|
|
Marjorie Prime director Michael Almereyda's metaphysical portrait of the psychologist behind the boundary-breaking "Obedience to Authority" experiments of the 1960s is like a combination of a historical drama and an experimental film.
|
|
" Without specifically mentioning Francis, he argued that a pope's authority was not "magical, but derives from his obedience to the Lord," and that the actions of a "heretical or sinful" pope were "void.
|
|
Orthodox Judaism, unlike other forms of American fundamentalism, largely avoids the question of belief; steadfast, granular obedience to the 613 commandments of the Torah, and the embrace of the community, preclude the question.
|
|
" The president concluded by asserting that "I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.
|
|
Confucianism, originally a moral as well as a political philosophy, became an ideology imposed to instill obedience to authority — from fathers in families to clan chiefs all the way up to the emperor.
|
|
In Vice, Maggie Puniewska points to the moral foundations theory, according to which liberals and conservatives prioritize different ethics: the former compassion, fairness and liberty, the latter purity, loyalty and obedience to authority.
|
|
"Voluntary servitude" is the course that La Boétie recommends: obedience to the state or Church, with the inner understanding that this is a course we've chosen from social prudence, not from personal conviction.
|
|
He couldn't sleep, ate like a wolf, and suffered intense headaches, fighting back with a long series of futile cures: antidepressants, biofeedback, an energy healer, even blind obedience to the rules of his church.
|
|
But isn't it dangerous to allow bureaucrats to unilaterally decide that a president is no longer legitimate, and that their duties to the office of the presidency no longer entail obedience to Donald Trump?
|
|
How could they expect rigorous obedience to the agency's core values by the rank and file, while at the same time giving a senior leader like Strzok a pass on serious lapses in judgment?
|
|
In its 2014 report on North Korea, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry noted that the government's system of demanding absolute obedience to the supreme leader "has facilitated the unchecked violation of human rights."
|
|
This marked state disruption at a previously unseen level: Rather than the typical marriage arranged by parents, the state would assume the matchmaker role, weakening kinship bonds and ensuring greater obedience to the Angkar.
|
|
If that is the situation here, these parents are entitled to do the best they can for their kids (given the constraints of honesty and obedience to the rules), even if it disadvantages others.
|
|
The GDR's Ministry for State Security, known as the Stasi, imposed near-absolute obedience to the state through surveillance, intimidation, torture, and a massive network of informants that turned neighbors and families against one another.
|
|
His previous obedience to it had been totemic of his bid to woo the German establishment and thus sell his reform proposals, so the shift suggests a president downgrading or even ditching that fruitless charm offensive.
|
|
Before it, there were the disturbing experiments by Stanley Milgram that revealed people's obedience to authority, by showing that they would seemingly inflict shocks on strangers if they were told to do so by a researcher.
|
|
The British prime minister assured followers of Islam of her "warmest wishes" on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, a festival which commemorates the readiness of Abraham or Ibrahim to offer up his son in obedience to God.
|
|
Given the president's coercive style and his lack of familiarity with the workings of the government, it is not surprising that senior staff members are focused more on their constitutional obligations than on blind obedience to the president.
|
|
And so with conformers, employees who are lost souls or authoritarians are at greater risk of blind obedience to those in power – and being co-opted by another bad manager, thereby making it harder to fix the culture.
|
|
This effect of social influence on behaviour was nicely demonstrated back in 1961 by the street corner experiment, conducted by the US social psychologist Stanley Milgram (better known for his work on obedience to authority figures) and colleagues.
|
|
Readers meet the upright, naive headmaster Mr Elekes, who will see his obedience to authority traduced by two kinds of tyranny, and his wife and daughters: sensible, thoughtful Iren, who narrates part of the story, and scatty, lovable Blanka.
|
|
Neither are his appeals to abstractions like unity and togetherness, which marginalize racial differences in the service of civic obedience, to say nothing of the interests of those who just want black athletes to shut up and play ball.
|
|
In another demonstration of unity after the coup, which was staged by a faction within the armed forces, the head of Turkey's air force issued a rare statement stressing "absolute obedience" to the chief of the military General Staff.
|
|
Some of this novel's best moments have him sparring with Mary, Henry's Catholic daughter with Katherine, pressing her to swear obedience to her father rather than risk being used by those seeking to undo Henry's self-interested English Reformation.
|
|
Mr. Nakagawa's brother would not promise to comply if drafted into the American military, and out of a sense of duty to his parents, refused to "forswear any form of allegiance or obedience to the Japanese emperor" (Question 28).
|
|
During the 2014 standoff between Cliven Bundy and federal agents in Nevada, Brigham Young University professor Quin Monson labeled the ranchers' views "far on the fringes" of Mormon practice, and argued that they contravene current doctrine on obedience to secular laws.
|
|
The big picture: An estimated 1-2 million people in Xinjiang, most of them Uighur Muslims, are held in detention camps that activists say are designed to erase the Uighur identity and instill fear and obedience to the Communist Party.
|
|
Edwards was responding to claims made Monday by Epstein's lawyers that Epstein had maintained a "spotless 14-year record," with "meticulous obedience" to the law, since he pleaded guilty to state prostitution-related charges in 2008 and was released from jail.
|
|
Even his form of Islam was acceptable to the Kemalists, with its emphasis on private worship and obedience to the Turkish state; it also struck a chord with millions of Turks who valued faith but didn't want it to dominate life.
|
|
The Administration must advocate for these individuals, particularly for a new cadre of young pastors who are preaching liberal democratic values such as the nature of rights, human dignity, principled engagement, truth-telling, and obedience to something beyond the state.
|
|
The situation came to a head last June when Francis demanded that all priests in the diocese write him a letter within 30 days pledging their obedience to and accepting Okpaleke as their bishop because he was appointed by a pope.
|
|
Harnessing the rhythms of the sitcom and the tropes of the season — there's even a pitch-black evocation of the Nativity — Mr. Kevorkian casts a wide social-satire net, massaging the link between generational abuse and blind obedience to authority.
|
|
Since coming to power in 2012, Mr. Xi has redoubled demands for obedience to himself as the top leader, and entrenched his power in 2018 by abolishing a term limit on the presidency, meaning that he can hold power indefinitely.
|
|
"Lord of the Flies," which is already on many schools' lists, narrates how easily children become savages, but "Obedience to Authority" relates how easily adults abdicate responsibility, and illuminates the horror that ensues when we placidly do as we are told.
|
|
And does one really need to point out why it's so rich of those who argue for states' rights to argue against site-specific architecture, stylistically conceived to suit America's diverse cultures, and instead favor obedience to a mandate from Washington?
|
|
Turow successfully recreates the roiling uncertainty of the Bosnian conflict and its consequences, the stew of racism, military aggression and crime, the willingness of ordinary people to visit spectacular cruelty on their neighbors in obedience to ethnic enmities centuries old.
|
|
Restricted to the Bible — "those books are for white folks," she says of the other volumes on the shelves of the plantation house library — Nat grows up with a perverse pastoral calling, traveling around the county to preach obedience to his fellow slaves.
|
|
But I feel like out of duty and out of obedience to what the Lord has called me to do, and then, to use the talents that I just shared with you guys, the talents that God has given me to glorify him.
|
|
The Senate Impeachment Rules provide that "the Senate shall have power to compel the attendance of witnesses" and to "enforce obedience to its orders," meaning that the Senate can use its inherent powers to enforce any subpoena it issues during an impeachment trial.
|
|
Although the stated reasons for the dramatic mass suicide are not often remembered, the method of self-annihilation certainly is: since 1978, the idiom "drinking the Kool-Aid" has been used to denote behavior that exhibits blind and unquestioning obedience to an individual or organization.
|
|
It's also worth noting that while Milgram's experiment relied purely on the participants' obedience to authority to produce murderous behavior, The Push appears to go several steps further, by convincing its subject / victim that he will go to prison if he does not kill.
|
|
Unlike with other armies of the world who pledge to defend their monarch or their homeland, our oath of service links our military to the protection and defense of the Constitution and the obedience to the President under the condition of adherence to orders.
|
|
Islam teaches us that life is a test of obedience to God and I counseled my community to view Mr. Trump's election as a test of our patience: God wanted to see if we would endure this challenge, or fall into complaining and despair.
|
|
Ideally, a widespread recognition of the legitimacy of political authority does most of the work in generating obedience to the law; threats of coercive sanction operate mainly as a backstop that helps solve collective action problems and keeps those who weren't going to comply anyway in check.
|
|
You wish that Ferry hadn't translated the Latin word pius in the first line of this passage as the English word it so closely resembles, "pious"; here more than anywhere else, pius means "dutiful," embodying a steadfast obedience to the gods' plan which overrides every other consideration.
|
|
But the movie's resolution—which suggests that, in order for everything else to fall into place, all these mothers need to do is let go—implies that, all along, it was their own fervent obedience to the absurd dictates of maternal perfection that produced their misery.
|
|
But seeing them all together, the force of their content builds cumulatively, to the point where I regard our basic survival as not being predicated on obedience to authority, and not even on the crucial act of recording acts of atrocities, but rather on luck and happenstance.
|
|
"The American people are fed a daily diet of nonsense-talk and lies… Nobody should underestimate the threat posed by a political party where conservatism is now defined by absolute obedience to a leader with autocratic tendencies who fetishizes dictators and autocrats all over the world," he said.
|
|
The story of Abraham and Isaac, of obedience to God in terrible conflict with parental love, is, as Morson and Schapiro argue, difficult to file under the heading of "child services," and, of course, there is no moral dimension to this economic analysis: utility is a fundamentally amoral concept.
|
|
But the ceremonial branding of some women involved in Nxivm followed a script created by the leader, Keith Raniere, and a handful of select followers who had promised complete obedience to him, according to four recorded conversations introduced last week as evidence in his racketeering and sex trafficking trial.
|
|
According to the United Nations report, which was prepared by its Commission of Inquiry and is more than 300 pages long, North Korea "operates an all-encompassing indoctrination machine that takes root from childhood to propagate an official personality cult and to manufacture absolute obedience" to Mr. Kim.
|
|
"He demands from his people and subordinates complete obedience to his leadership, because the country is on the verge of imminent invasion from the US and South Korea," said Seung-Kyun Ko, a professor at Hawaii Pacific University and a former research commissioner in South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
|
|
As the country entered a period of soul-searching, these young chefs took the opportunity to throw off what Bob calls the "legacy exoskeleton" of manners and slavish obedience to groupthink and instead to begin advancing the cause of native ingredients, prepared with great care and what seems at times almost freakish originality.
|
|
Whose nightmare is darker, the nightmare of Americans who oppose Trump because they believe he is a danger to the republic, or the nightmare of Republicans who publicly support him but are privately ashamed and alarmed that he endangers the republic and fear their obedience to him could destroy their political careers and permanently stain their private conscience and public legacy?
|
|
"The type of claims pursued by a celebrity like Olivia de Havilland here deserve especially heightened scrutiny because docudramas, biopics and historical dramas — which by design do not portray individuals or events literally or with obedience to historical fact — often depict real people who may not like, and may even be offended or embarrassed by, how they are portrayed," the M.P.A.A.-Netflix brief says.
|
|
In college, I took a class that centered on a book called "Obedience to Authority," which was trying to explain why an ordinary German would be a worker at a concentration camp, or why anyone would be part of a system that is so evil and corrosive, and how they deal with authority and whatever cognitive dissonance they need to have to do something so inhumane.
|
|
MK-ULTRA sponsored work in posthypnotic suggestion that was designed to produce "programmed killers," but it merely confirmed what every stage hypnotist has always known—that hypnosis is essentially a form of obedience to authority, and the hypnotist cannot make people do something they really don't want to any more than a teacher who can "make" you solve problems on a blackboard can "make" you jump out a window.
|
|
You know that this limp could be mistaken for some kind of affect, some lame attempt at gangsta lean, but on some level that you maybe don't even acknowledge you know that walking like you do subverts the straight-postured upright citizenly way of moving one's arms and feet just so, to express obedience, to pledge allegiance to a way of life and to a nation and its laws.
|
|
It leads men from primitive tribal life to that highest expression of human power which is Empire; it links up; through the centuries the names of those of its members who have died for its existence and in obedience to its laws, it holds up the memory of the leaders who have increased its territory and the geniuses who have illumined it with glory as an example to be followed by future generations.
|
|