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"obedient" Definitions
  1. doing what you are told to do; willing to obey

406 Sentences With "obedient"

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I had been an obedient, respectful child and an obedient and respectful teenager.
And I was obedient and I was following these tropes and it was only later ... Obedient.
I knew that I was being obedient and like, just because you're obedient doesn't make it easy.
Should it be "autonomous and challenging" or "obedient and assisting"?
Gilead's Commanders don't want pious women — they want obedient women.
Who says we have to be obedient to this people?
It's the wrath of their obedient, weaponized minions I fear.
Those who believe, however, are also called to be obedient.
They demanded that I be a good and obedient child.
The rules are enforced by obedient citizens tasked to patrol streets.
They love a good obedient liberal who strives to be Europeans.
In order to keep them obedient she displays a new power.
Theon goes to Winterfell with Ramsay, acting as his obedient servant.
Obedient in my farce, I pee again, presenting the stick: PREGNANT.
Only obedient good girl Sarah can be trusted with her power.
She proved somewhat wooden, but "pridna — diligent, obedient," Mr. Jerko said.
THEY'RE an obedient lot, too, versed in the relevant talking points.
I might've just been lucky to have obedient audiences every time.
Ever obedient, Silvia finds a restroom and pees on the stick.
Dutiful entrepreneurs and obedient apparatchiks may be easy subjects to govern.
She was the authoritarian figure and I was the obedient daughter.
Always dressed in flowing virginal whites, she's gracious, meek, selfless, obedient.
"It means lord master over obedient female companions," she tells India.
What was Barnard College like for an obedient girl from Dallas?
I am with great respect, Your Obedient Humble Servant, George Washington.
His detention sparked protest from even normally obedient members of the press.
There's a darker scenario in which people become too conformist, too obedient.
The more obedient you are, the better things will go for you.
Student Question | Do You Prefer Your Children's Book Characters Obedient or Contrary?
The breed is very obedient and loyal, making it the perfect companion.
Only one kind of daughter can live in this house: Obedient daughter!
K isn't human, either: He's a newer, more obedient type of replicant.
The mammy stereotype portrays black women as obedient maids to white families.
The common story for the connection between Carthusians and a vegetable construction concealing meat is that the name is literal: that the obedient monks were not so obedient — they hid meat inside cabbage and carrot to hide transgression.
He wants to shift from training obedient clerks towards training self-starting entrepreneurs.
Yet, to this day, dictators rely on an obedient army to retain power.
The nominally independent court, by contrast, remains an obedient servant of the regime.
He was the most obedient kid in the family, did well at school.
In obedient response, Seattle banned plastic straws, and other places plan to follow.
She grew up obedient but tart, good in school but headstrong and impulsive.
Developing obedient liquids could also help answer fundamental questions about science, says Zarzar.
He has nurtured a new clique of obedient oligarchs loyal to the Kremlin.
Obedient girls who lead ordinary lives do not get rock musicals made about them.
I'm living the dream because I was obedient to the call of the dream.
I am obedient and therefore I have the right to be left in peace.
If Patricia Lockwood is a prodigal daughter, then Macy Halford is an obedient sibling.
It's basically one part robot, one part adorable pet, and one part obedient servant.
His demanding personality and her obedient one gel and their dynamic quickly becomes sexual.
The cross of these two breeds is thought to be very obedient and intelligent.
Puccini's opera indulges in an uncomfortable racial stereotype: the obedient, long-suffering Japanese geisha.
SALONEN When I started out, I was an obedient student of the modernist movement.
Ever the obedient student, I've made puréed soups like this for nearly 20 years.
Alexa serves as an obedient assistant that genuinely makes controlling music and smart lights easier.
I was obedient, and she was obliging, though we never demanded much of each other.
Rey is plucky, obedient, old before her time; Luke is morose, willful, a typical teenager.
Sinn was always a good dog, extremely obedient and protective and not at all aggressive.
As obedient as a golden retriever, the L-39 tilted into a second barrel roll.
Few words mean exactly what they did centuries ago: "buxom" once meant "obedient", for example.
The radiant young soprano Janai Brugger was wonderful as Jemmy, Tell's brave and obedient son.
""I am still an obedient citizen and I will always be behind the royal family.
News: #MeToo Book: "An Obedient Father" by Akhil Sharma (2000) This is a sickening book.
And Fox News, that most obedient Spaniel, ran a photograph of rebellious Eagles players kneeling.
They pledged to be obedient, pledged to support the Scouts and pledged to be honorable.
I, the firstborn, am diplomatic and obedient, less concerned with standing out than blending in.
The part of me that wants to be obedient is still very active in me.
Most of the photographs are taken late at night, when's Skye's sleepy and hence more obedient.
When Mamaw first drops the no alcohol news, her obedient granddaughter immediately agrees, no questions asked.
Though Ofglen initially seems obedient in her servitude, there's more to her than meets the eye.
"You have to look out for yourself and make sure these people are obedient," Wang warned.
Or is it her culture because, in America, foreign-born citizens are valued when they're obedient?
I was pretty much the model Soviet child — well behaved, polite, kind, obedient, check, check, check.
There can be fun in that but not much impact because real characters aren't so obedient.
But that does not speak to the continued pressure within families for women to remain obedient.
She is a gentle, loving, obedient girl with humans (of any age), but aggressive with dogs.
She says her children, a girl and a boy, are sweet and obedient and thoroughly integrated.
A Scout is Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean and Reverent.
Among Brazilians who favored respectful, obedient, and good-mannered kids, four times as many chose Bolsonaro.
It's reasonable to worry about reporters changing their behavior due to Trump's threats, and becoming more obedient.
Trump is clearly a thug and wannabe dictator who lashes out at anyone who isn't sufficiently obedient.
In Les Misérables, Cosette is obedient and passive, while Eponine brawls with her father in the streets.
Demagogues get their start by "taking over a particularly obedient mob", before seizing control of the country.
He set off internet ridicule on Super Tuesday when he stood behind Mr. Trump, mute and obedient.
Their role is that of obedient daughters, sisters and wives, their domains restricted to childcare and cooking.
During scenes/sessions—being obedient, pleasing him and also somewhat watching out if he is enjoying himself.
She decides to throw out the pills, saying goodbye to her zombified, obedient son along with them.
And like the faithful and obedient subjects we are, we wait impatiently for it to happen too.
The study also suggests that as humans selected obedient dogs for breeding, we also selected hungrier ones.
"An Obedient Father" evokes sympathy for a sexual predator in Karan, weak and flawed as he is.
This breed is an active listener and obedient, making it especially good with children and the elderly.
The donkey, dumb and obedient, trots on, takes the uphills and unevens without fuss, pauses, defecates, continues.
When the once obedient hosts become self aware, the meticulously designed park begins to unravel into chaos.
Outside their home in Tizamarte, Gutiérrez remembers a teen who was always obedient and close to his mother.
Of the Greek versions, she appears only in Sophocles' "Electra," as an obedient child who defers to Clytemnestra.
Under Erdogan, Turkey is no longer the obedient NATO ally guarding the alliance's southern flank against Russian expansionism.
Though loyal and obedient, the forces operate far enough outside official structures to give the government plausible deniability.
The question, of course, is unfortunately almost entirely rhetorical, as long as politicians remain obedient to the NRA.
They're obedient and easily trained to respond to auditory commands like whistles, specific phrases, and even hand signals.
A Boy Scout is, apparently, trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.
Before the rise of feminism, she considered those who wanted to be more than obedient wives and mothers.
He could just be using the threat of leaning on the opposition to whip Republicans into obedient shape.
In a Facebook post, he said he was impressed by how orderly and obedient the boys had been.
He makes his move by 'taking over a particularly obedient mob' and attacking his wealthy peers as corrupt.
The trailer introduced the heroine Hua Mulan and showcased her transformation from obedient daughter to China's greatest warrior.
"Although it seems that they are obedient, it's a survival mechanism," he said of the students undergoing deradicalization.
Second-string big men are supposed to be obedient stopgaps, and almost everywhere else in the NBA they are.
His cool appraisal of demagoguery is useful for understanding the rise of charismatic authoritarians who command obedient party machines.
Maybe it's a chicken and egg problem: Did my mother raise me to be obedient because it's her culture?
Both are policies that please the hard-right base of the Republican Party, keeping it fiercely obedient to Trump.
Inspired by the diverse blooms there, Ms. Dunn wondered, What if she could have bred a more obedient boy?
In a profile for the New York Magazine, Gabbard is described as introverted, extremely quiet, and obedient growing up.
In appointing O'Brien, it seems Trump was primarily interested in having an obedient, rather than qualified, national security adviser.
Washington Post reporter Josh Dawsey says he's cultivated a relationship with President Trump, in part by being unfailingly obedient.
"She basically had one act, which was going from an obedient character to a machine-like avenger," he added.
"She hid beneath the bed in the bedroom and she was very good and obedient after that," Skarphedinsson says.
As a result, we too often end up demonstrating that we are acquiescent, obedient and equal to male expectations.
He does a great job at the vet and is weirdly obedient (for him) and I'm just so proud.
Imperturbably obedient by design, Alexa appears to offer us a new level of control and choice, always on demand.
Folman and Polonsky depict Anne as a schoolgirl, a friend, a sister, a girlfriend and a reluctantly obedient daughter.
Instead of the quiet, deeply studious, obedient, grade-obsessed "whiz-kids," they're athletic, funny, popular, fierce, creative, and assertive leaders.
Even robotic pets — hopefully ones that are equally obedient but significantly less scary than Voodoo — may be on the horizon.
Like obedient little avatars serving up succulent chicken and crispy fries, and sending us in a DeLorean into the future.
They had told him that an ethnic-minority bride would be more obedient than someone from the ethnic-Han majority.
Fiennes is like a folkloric boogeyman, stalking from town to town brandishing hammers and orbitoclasts, with Andy his obedient herald.
Thornhill said they joke that his son will either be fast or obedient, but "so far we're working on fast."
They do not make sacrifices for that which is held in contempt — nor are they obedient to it for long.
Trump, still a relative newbie to politics, has only dealt with an obedient Republican Party for the past two years.
Dogs are obedient, eager to please and highly trainable, which is why they do all kinds of jobs for us.
Yapping lap dogs like Lindsey Graham and obedient manservants like Mitch McConnell have gone further, mocking the whole impeachment process.
Just as political machines are a thing of the past, so is dealing for large blocs of obedient delegates anachronistic.
He also reinforces the idea that individuals should be obedient to their rulers and not declare jihad on their own.
Putin and his obedient press regularly attack gays and gay rights as part of a Western conspiracy to destroy Russia.
It's more of a misunderstanding between terriers and the people who would like them to be nice, obedient golden retrievers.
For example, I found one that was a perfect fit, but its inscription was 'Obedient Wife, Happy Life' — utterly unsuitable.
He's an obedient, easily swayed nobody, and Damon doesn't portray him as particularly divided, or even particularly interested in the options.
The trailer introduces the movie's beautiful setting and heroine, Hua Mulan, showcasing her transformation from obedient daughter to China's greatest warrior.
Clones are notoriously obedient, which apparently comes in handy when you need them to churn out hit single after hit single.
Instead, we continue to celebrate monumental sculptures that direct our passage through them, like obedient children in search of a thrill.
Elisabeth Moss' character Offred remarks that Ofglen seems just as pious and obedient — perhaps even more so — than the other handmaids.
When you have perfectly obedient media willing to speak with a single voice, you have the luxury of eliding such stories.
This regime is suppressing our rights to liberty and freedom and under natural law we have no obligation to be obedient.
To be obedient and to be submissive, especially to male authority figures, is — in most evangelical communities— a de facto virtue.
From Wallace's point of view, the only way forward for humanity is to use obedient replicant slaves to keep it alive.
We ignored the gratuitous feedback and went on with our lives — our attention focused on raising a good and obedient dog.
Yet, despite their energy, I find them not classical but academic: obedient to self-made rules without revealing any inner impulse.
Kadyrov's forces represent a convenient instrument for the Kremlin: obedient, battle-hardened troops who can be counted on for messy missions.
After years of serving as our obedient couch and bed consumption companions, tablets are now leveling up with productivity-driven features.
He's pretty obedient (still has his puppy moments) and hangs at the gym with a pretty mellow demeanor most of the day.
Seeing it a third time doesn't actually sound like much of a thrill, even to the most patient and obedient of dogs.
"The pup reportedly jumped right into the basket and was an obedient guest, sitting nicely the whole way down," the post said.
Specifically, individuals who believed that raising kids to be well-behaved, obedient, respectful of elders and well-mannered were likely Trump voters.
Whichever casting director thought to pair Angela Bassett and Henry Cavill as CIA director and her obedient, musclebound henchman deserves an Oscar.
It turns them into outspoken whistleblowers, where in real life they would have been obedient, because that was life in the USSR.
Bulgaria, which was liberated from Ottoman rule by Russia, became one of the most obedient Soviet satellite states during the Cold War.
Is it truly surprising that I reacted less like a sweet, obedient female and more like an animal fending off a threat?
Later in the season, one of Villanelle's new handlers repeatedly demands that she sit (and more largely, that she become placidly obedient).
These movies both reinforce certain Confucian values and simultaneously combat stereotypes about Asians: that they are obedient, dutiful, loyal, timid and fearful.
A new, more obedient type of replicant has been developed by a corporation led by a tech visionary played by Jared Leto.
Whether brainwashed P.O.W.s were ideological converts or merely obedient bodies, disciplined by physical punishment, remained a matter of dispute among contemporary observers.
"They're not this obedient, follow-you-around, do-whatever-you-tell-them-to-do type of animal, like a dog," she says.
"Be obedient to Allah and use your intelligence instead of resorting to arms," he used to counsel when fellow Arabs went to war.
Abroad, Mr López Obrador pledges to act "like the older brother in Latin America", not the obedient younger brother of the United States.
"In Japan, women always need to be cute and obedient and young and pretty," muses Tokyo-born illustrator and ceramics artist Aya Kakeda.
The message, some critics say, is that black liberation is only a dream, and only obedient, peaceful folks can expect tolerance and survival.
The parents find the tragedy devoid of all the "sportsmanship" regularly hyped by the National Rifle Association and its obedient cohort in Congress.
"As an obedient servant to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, Tim Kaine is the leading obstructionist against Trump's America First agenda," Stewart said.
Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
But instead of playing to a man's ego, she's purposely bruising it, likening her admirer to an obedient dog simply because she can.
The mother of the family is responsible for managing the home and producing Christian children, while children must be obedient to their parents.
K would come to embrace his destiny as the leader of the replicants, casting off his overly obedient programming and joining the revolution.
But Trump and obedient Attorney General William Barr have been busy pitching a counternarrative with the full force of the federal government behind it.
They were obedient to this idea that you could spew out all kinds of disgusting stuff, but they would try to refrain from violence.
We call for rebellion and a struggle against the alliance of the patriarchy and capitalism that wants us to be obedient, submissive and quiet.
And how can the denomination square a belief in submissive, obedient women with a commitment to fighting sexual harassment, sexual abuse, and gender discrimination?
Protestants have often been obedient subjects to thoroughly noxious rulers, taking no interest in politics so long as their own separate sphere is respected.
On the campaign trail, he endured public ridicule, when he stood obedient and silent next to Mr. Trump on Super Tuesday on March 1.
We're not dogs, we don't have to be obedient to these people who've hijacked our courts, our institutions, generally for their own financial benefit.
Its chapters, set alternatingly in Russia and America, carry its mysterious plot to a satisfying resolution like an army of obedient soldiers following orders.
As a sophomore at Upland High School, I was the obedient apple of my dragon mother's eye and on track to go to Stanford.
Too tired to defend themselves, they're easily robbed of their animal masks and turned into obedient workers, á la Yubaaba's bathhouse in Spirited Away.
It was called D.O.S., an acronym for a Latin phrase that roughly translates to "Lord/Master of the Obedient Female Companions," court papers said.
It was a rendering rarely seen in depictions of Indian women at the time, when portrayals tended to cast them as happy and obedient.
In fact, this phrase is part of a longer definition of "obedient autonomy" and has little to do with people monitoring themselves or others.
Word of the Day : willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect _________ The word dutiful has appeared in 102 articles on nytimes.
"Butterfly," an opera based on a short story and subsequent play, helped perpetuate the modern Western stereotype of the obedient, long-suffering Asian woman.
Beah's memoir offers a rare chance to see war from the eyes of a child soldier, brainwashed and kept obedient with drugs and guns.
Young Woman is the obedient and dependent wife of an older man (Shane Taylor), a farmer called Pony William for his affinity with horses.
On the low-slung plain of southeast Brooklyn, where the land slips gently toward the sea, subway stations are as common as obedient cats.
Now, he was looking to take out the prime minister of another country, one who was deemed not sufficiently obedient to his Saudi patrons.
Kelesha, a student at P.S. 205 Fiorello LaGuardia in the Bronx "enjoyed playing make believe" and was "sweet and obedient," according to an obituary.
Would you rather have kids who are respectful of their elders, obedient, and well-behaved or children who are independent, curious, and self-reliant?
"I was obedient to my Lord in creating it and after much prayer I must respectfully decline to take part in its removal," Baker wrote.
The group is reported to have adopted a mind-control approach called Dominus Obsequious Sororium, Latin for "lord over the obedient female companions" or "DOS."
In Sunday night's episode, "Dirt," Amma, sweet and volatile Amma, obedient and hard-drinking Amma, continues to be a funhouse mirror of a teenage girl.
Model works out with chillest cat everWe don't know what's more impressive about Instagram favorite Travis DesLaurier: his killer abs or his ultra-obedient cat.
Eichmann repeatedly told the court that he did not hate the Jewish people and that he was simply obedient to the law and his leader.
After the abolition of slavery, this cultural stereotype transformed into the expectation that African Americans remain obliging and obedient even when they had achieved success.
In a separate appearance, Johnson said that he refers to radical Islamism as "obedient Islam," with radical jihadists representing the truest members of the faith.
The Norwegian Buhund is also very obedient and is oftentimes used as a service dog for the police force or to assist the hearing impaired.
Flour is never spilt, eggs are cracked with a surgeon's precision, butter is obedient, and fussy shellfish bend to the will of Food Network's chefs.
He approached the suspect, who was considered armed and dangerous, with his service weapon drawn, but Wiggins was "totally obedient" as he was arrested, Stewart said.
Fittingly, the so-called "Clucking Clerk" was immortalized with its own postcard, which depicts the obedient bird in a cage-like booth, complete with a microphone.
In 2016, PETA released a report claiming the tigers were subjected to "environmental and physiological neglect, psychological abuse," and "fear-based techniques" to keep them obedient.
She and another former prisoner, Zumrat Dawut, also told the ICIJ detainees were given medication that made them listless and obedient, and every move was surveilled.
Obedient to the state, in the 1930s, Socialist Realism's portrayal of workers was replaced by military men, as the fear of foreign intrusion began to grow.
The values of the Scout Law — of being trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent — are not ideological or partisan.
Delve into the books of the Mexican writer and musician Julián Herbert and how obedient — how chaste — so much contemporary nonfiction can suddenly seem in comparison.
An independent-minded girl, born with a kind of preternatural confidence, Prabhati was also a devoted daughter, obedient to her parents, incapable of dissembling to them.
The Indian state is enacting an authoritarian vision in which political rights are conditioned on the privileges of religion and class and on being obedient subjects.
When you don't have low rent, you have people who have to be obedient, because they have to make a living in order to pay that rent.
Despite their supposed heroism, they kept the secret to ensure a future where people, fearing an inter-dimensional war, trust their heroes more and become more obedient.
Behind this image of a docile kneeling handmaid and an obedient wife is a seething military might – that could, hypothetically, march into Canada and take the baby.
Completely on his own, the obedient dog joined Close near the stairs and proceeded to follow her onstage, waiting by the podium as she gave her speech.
Karroubi also said that by vetting candidates in elections, Khamenei had reduced parliament to "an obedient assembly" under his thumb and the influence of Revolutionary Guards lobbies.
In 2010, the faithful were divided into two castes: An elite group of the most pious and obedient men and their families emerged at the United Order.
"Now John was being obedient to the dictionary definition of bullshit," he observes dryly amid an interview with John Stagliano, director of an adult video called Buttland.
Trump is clearly a thug and a wannabe dictator who lashes out anyone who isn't sufficiently obedient," Meyers said on his show "Late Night with Seth Meyers.
I imagine that later, after I've gone, she will rearrange it on Christina's head, and my sister will be still before her, as obedient as a child.
With her soft yielding gaze and shoulders, Thelma (Eili Harboe) looks like a classic innocent, one of those obedient child-women whose desires bring knowledge and grief.
Ezekiel sees himself as the fraud that his Savior captor makes him out to be: He's a former zookeeper with delusions of grandeur and one obedient tiger.
At the end, no longer the obedient lap dog, he dupes those same handlers and uses Greg's purloined documents to take a kill-shot at his father.
Lawyers for some of the victims say that dozens of Germans were enslaved for decades and abused, subjected to electric shocks and doping to keep them obedient.
The labor bureau of Qapqal ordered that villagers should undergo military-style training to convert them into obedient workers, loyal to employers and the ruling Communist Party.
And Ms. Dragus, who slowly takes possession of the film's moral center, beautifully dramatizes the dilemma of a child who wants to be both obedient and independent.
Maybe Kim Jong Un and his small army of obedient developers were able to build all of their scary surveillance devices because companies like Apple showed them how.
One Chinese mail-order marriage site says Vietnamese women are cheap, obedient and unlikely to run away: they are "so gentle and loving they will make you melt".
There has long been a code followed in the immigrant world, especially among older immigrants: be obedient and orderly because you are a guest in someone else's home.
It might help if we all learned to be less blindly obedient to the various feelings—including the beautiful, affiliative ones—that push and pull us through life.
Fantasies of individual power and collective victimhood are marketed to flatter obedient ticket buyers with the conviction that they are masters rather than minions, underdogs rather than lackeys.
For example, in Pullman's books its said that people in service (butlers, assistants, lower-level police officers) often have dogs as their dæmons due to their obedient natures.
His assistant was on vacation, he explained, and he had observed me in town and judged me to be an enterprising young man, mild-mannered, reliable, and obedient.
In the years since, the Tyrell Corporation was bought by a figure named Niander Wallace (Jared Leto), who created a race of replicants who are obedient to humans.
"Obedient and obliging machines that pretend to be women are entering our homes, cars and offices," Saniye Gulser Corat, Unesco's director for gender equality, said in a statement.
A demand to be acknowledged as dignified citizens, not obedient subjects, is palpable in numerous protest movements that are ready to stand up to government and police pressure.
Or, if that takes too long and they just need some troops fast, they can shoot out robot appendages to turn anyone fighting them into lifeless, obedient husks.
Its economy will have to cope with debts from its building boom, and President Xi Jinping's support for politically obedient — but often inefficient — state-managed companies isn't helping.
It controls perks dispensed to obedient Kremlin apparatchiks, but also covert action programs of the sort that resulted in the Trump dossier assembled by Christopher Steele in 2016.
Those who prefer obedient, respectful children tend to be less concerned about bedrock democratic principles like free speech and a free press, which can, of course, produce disagreement.
The survivors in these stories were the ones who learned how to be obedient and to negotiate their own releases by subjugating their wills and impulses with apparent cooperation.
This green reminds me of my childhood, when the lawns weren't just holograms on soccer fields, but a real sweep of green strings, aligned like an enormous obedient crowd.
For example, when parents are extremely overprotective, they may produce children who are obedient at home, but lack personal discipline and self-confidence when outside their parents' fastidious oversight.
Much of the Latin American left is blindly obedient to the failed models of Cuba and Venezuela, or still beguiled by populist caudillos (for whom Mariátegui had no time).
Haphazardly, then purposefully, humans bred cereals to be more bountiful, livestock to be more docile, dogs more obedient and cats more companionable (the last a partial success, at best).
But when she gives her final speech, reminding women of their duty to their husbands — to be pretty, grateful and, above all, obedient — it always makes me feel sick.
Those years obedient to time is money when it's space that's time, every tenant diligently building out the common night Jana Prikryl is the author of The After Party.
"Obedient and obliging machines that pretend to be women are entering our homes, cars and offices," Saniye Gülser Corat, Director of Gender Equality at UNESCO, said in a statement.
Not all his deficiencies can be explained by his surroundings, but it'd be interesting to see how he'd look in a less-rickety system, complemented by more obedient defenders.
The piano keys each Furby is soldered to can squeeze a formant vowel note from each creatures beak, turning the chaotic crowd of chatterboxes into a rigid, obedient choir.
While dating Kris, Robert insisted that she listen to instructional audiocassettes to stock the bare pantry of her mind with knowledge, mistakenly assuming she would be an obedient helpmate.
In hot sun, gloved ice-skaters, obedient to the calendar, meandered across the rink in Bryant Park, which showed itself ready for winter with displays of snowflakes and stars.
Certainly the set, by Izmir Ickbal, is exactingly obedient to Beckett's stage directions, with only the bonus of some scallop-shell footlights to underline the play's music hall qualities.
He slowly works the crowds at conferences, pitches his wacky ideas to investors and interviews a cast of ridiculous characters: cyborgs, tech bros, hackers and obedient employees all feature.
" His contention is that human beings are animals but also "persons," by which he means "free, self-conscious, rational agents, obedient to reason and bound by the moral law.
Nor are we told how killing every Asgardian and ruling an undead army contributes to a larger vision for power, beyond wanting to hang around an undead, obedient army.
Margaret Cho's cringey All-American Girl portrayed a Korean-American family that fulfilled all of the stereotypes of Asian immigrants: a strict "tiger mom," overachieving nerdy characters, and obedient children.
This ending leaves us with two options: June is pretending to be obedient, because she realizes the only way to survive is through pretending to have internalized the Gileadean message.
Being obedient was the most important thing, but equally important were spending time with family and knowing where we came from; my parents instilled that in us very early on.
" The goal of these African tribes, the LeVines write, "is a compliant baby, oriented to people rather than objects, who will become a respectful toddler and, later, an obedient child.
And what the media, and sadly too many people in our camp, the Republican Party, want to refer to as militant or radical Islam, they're simply being obedient, aren't they?
More important (for the geopolitics of this alternate reality, if not for the show's main characters), Nick passes Luke the Mayday letters Offred almost burned during her "obedient handmaid" phase.
"Being a good son doesn't mean you need to be obedient all the time, but at least you should be reasonable and benefit China's system and society," Mr. Lui said.
Border collie and Australian shepherd mixes are known for being intelligent and obedient due to their farm dog backgrounds, while husky and German shepherd mixes are usually friendly and energetic.
Mr. Trump and Conan appeared in the Rose Garden with Vice President Mike Pence — who was grinning and petting the obedient dog — the first lady, Melania Trump, and a handler.
But each year, even after I outgrew the desire for such a performance of holiness, those little girls chosen to crown the statue seemed aspirational — the picture of pretty, obedient devotion.
Ivanna is utterly obedient to the organisation, but you can see the fear in her dark eyes and her tightly set face that her sacrifices may all have been for nothing.
As a timid, obedient preacher's kid in the Midwest, I never considered that I'd see a future in which any of these things were possible — such openness about sex, about wanting.
In this case, the process of simplification works in liberalism's favor, turning it into a parent that hands out gifts ("social freedoms") to its obedient children ("blacks, Jews, gays, and women").
Orderists believe that events in Ukraine in 2014 are Exhibit A for Western hypocrisy: The United States encouraged and financed a coup in Kiev, they say, and installed obedient politicians afterward.
The reasons behind the excommunication are not known, but it was one of hundreds of culls Warren Jeffs initiated to neutralize rivals within the sect and scare members into remaining obedient.
We should focus on teaching young girls to be less passive and obedient and more confident and assertive, as well as showing more children female leaders along with their male counterparts.
But there is a way of looking at Korean or Japanese players that is the construction of an Asian masculine subject through the lens of the stereotype of the 'obedient citizen.
If they refuse, they will go down in history as Mr. Trump's obedient servants in the escalating campaign to transform the presidency into an instrument for arbitrary assertions of military force.
Without confronting this inequality, this misconstrual of history, photography will continue to describe itself as one thing (a force for liberation) while obdurately remaining another (an obedient appendage of state power).
This was as true of the often unruly Rei Kawakubo at Comme des Garçons Homme Plus as it was of the orderly and corporately obedient Kris Van Assche at Dior Homme.
Across Latin America in recent years, people who prefer obedient, disciplined children have voted consistently for right-wing populists such as Porfirio Lobo in Honduras and Otto Perez Molina in Guatemala.
PYONGYANG — North Korea celebrated its 70th birthday over the weekend with a carefully choreographed two-hour parade, celebrating its military might and obedient citizens as it has so many times before.
What it's about: IRL, Alice is a sweet, obedient daughter who's tight-lipped about the oddly lucrative internet job that pays for her nice apartment and her $5,000 pieces of furniture.
I grew up on the border, where lowriders have always been a loud symbol of cultural pride, cruising up against an Anglo world that demanded orderly labor, model minorities, and obedient barrios.
But directing a dog from afar, no matter how obedient it may be, can be tricky in some environments, like when it's just too loud for the animal to hear verbal commands.
"I kept him because he's so loyal and obedient, and always helps me out when I go into the fields to tend to my cattle," his owner, Usa Nisaika, told The Guardian. 
Then their boss, Guo Shengkun, the minister of public security, rose to offer contrition, vowing to make his officers "even more steadfastly and conscientiously" obedient to Mr. Xi and other party leaders.
James Nixey, head of the Russia and Eurasia program at Chatham House, says the use of financial or sexual kompromat "used to embarrass, expose or keep obedient" began in the Soviet era.
His father, Jin (Youn Ho Cho), and mother, Soyoung (Haerry Kim), have pinned all their hopes on the quiet, obedient son who displays little enthusiasm for the future they envision for him.
Philip spent much of season one skulking about Buckingham Palace, practically limping under the mammoth chip on his shoulder about his once obedient wife daring to become something of a confident leader.
Little Women was part of an answering trend of books for girls that were supposed to offer obedient, submissive girls an alternative to the kind of outdoorsy, wild books offered to boys.
And is there any evidence to suggest why Trump often appears to be obedient to Russian President Vladimir Putin, following fears felt deep within the FBI that the US President was compromised?
Every day across a litany of platforms, secretive algorithms are not only calculating what content you'll see and what ads you'll respond well to, but your overall trustworthiness as an obedient consumer.
A prerecorded interview of President Emmanuel Macron that aired on public television channel France 2 on Sunday night drew much criticism on social media for its soft questions and its obedient tone.
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At the end of the play, she gives a speech about how it is a woman's place to be obedient and how a wife should place her hand beneath her husband's foot.
The "master-slave program," as Sylvie called it, was a secret sorority known as DOS, an acronym for a Latin phrase that roughly means "master of the obedient female companions," according to prosecutors.
If you can carefully break down the task into steps and write a script or a program before it, boom, you've got this obedient device that will do it until the sun explodes.
It is not just that he is president in a hyper-presidential system, with a wide range of powers, a toothless and obedient legislature, no meaningful opposition, and sky-high personal approval ratings.
One that many people in power have the ability to change, as well as one where women can be wolves themselves, rather than being stuck as obedient-until-punished Little Red Riding Hood.
For its first season Beckles tortures guests of the show—Joey Badass, Anne Coulter, Snooki, Steve Wilkos—in front of an obedient studio audience that feels like a cross between TRL and 1984.
Since a group is in no doubt as to what constitutes truth or error, and is conscious, moreover, of its own great strength, it is as intolerant as it is obedient to authority.
"Growing up as a mixed Chinese and white kid in very white Scotland, Mulan showed me I didn't have to be demure and obedient," Bristol-based writer and photographer Ailsa Fineron tells me.
In this 2017 article, former Olympians help to explain why girls and women — no matter how injured, hungry or distraught they were — stayed obedient to a system that prioritized medals above all else.
In pursuing a pop career, and thus a less solemn and obedient identity as a Serious Actress, Lopez telegraphed early on that she was a bit too restless to play by Hollywood's rules.
Uighurs have for three years endured a sweeping campaign to turn them into obedient followers of the Communist Party, to weaken their commitment to Islam and to shift them from farms to factories.
Uighurs have for three years endured a sweeping campaign to turn them into obedient followers of the Communist Party, to weaken their commitment to Islam and to shift them from farms to factories.
"As Noam Chomsky once observed, 'the smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum,'" Damore wrote.
I did, however, also fall in love with Booth Tarkington's Penrod books, about an 11-year-old mischievous Midwestern boy, which I read when I was an 11-year-old obedient Midwestern boy.
As the series progresses we see him become less obedient to both regimes and I think obedience was a German character trait until this generation shook it off and began to think for themselves.
First, in an extended discussion of the research on the impact of birth order, Mr. Grant details the tendency of later-born children to be more original by distinguishing themselves from more obedient firstborns.
We lost count during this scene trying to keep up with the amount of casualties, but know this: None of this would be possible without the efforts of two obedient, incessantly crotch-biting doggos.
"The heroin supply chain appears to be a largely horizontal, diversified operation with multiple actors, and one that is obedient to market forces rather than one or two single vertically integrated distributors," Dudley testified.
Treating these incidents differently is dangerous when all are similarly created through cultures built on social structures of patriarchy where men are the predominant breadwinners and women are often viewed as obedient baby-baskets.
"The girls are trained to be 'good girls,' obedient and silent and to stand in a line and look all the same," Rachel Moore, former CEO of American Ballet Theater, told WBUR in 2015.
With respect to followers, there are certain types of individuals who are likely to remain obedient to toxic leaders, turn a blind eye to their behavior and even participate in the leader's destructive activities.
He said he had attempted to get out of his assignment to work at Tuol Sleng but, like that obedient schoolboy, when he took on the task he was determined to do it right.
But the president has all but won his monthslong battle with the country's rail unions — Parliament passed his big trains initiative this week — and his majority in the National Assembly continues to be obedient.
Right now, the Obama administration could unleash a nuclear holocaust across America and claim, "The radiation is to stop Zika!" and everybody would just go along with it (because they're totally obedient to false authority).
The way Curry tirelessly snakes through screens off the ball, forcing switches, opening wide gates for his teammates, and discombobulating even the most obedient defensive systems, is why he's underpaid on a $201 million contract.
The next day, our obedient student body shuffled into the fenced area between our school buildings only to witness teachers' comments about how 'cute' we were and their apologies for being 60 seconds behind schedule.
The horses were in festive finery and obedient to every subtle command from perfect-posture riders whose stiff-brimmed Cordobés hats complemented their high-waisted paseo trousers, short jackets — chaquetillas camperas — and tall leather boots.
The next day, our obedient student body shuffled into the fenced area between our school buildings only to witness teachers' comments about how "cute" we were and their apologies for being 60 seconds behind schedule.
Within five months of taking power, he dispatched armed Interior Ministry troops to raid Gusinsky's headquarters; by 2001, Gusinsky had been forced to give up NTV to more obedient owners and had fled the country.
He believes in Rick and seems perfectly happy doing his chores when not hanging out in the trailer he shares with an obedient and extremely hungry pit bull behind a drive-in theater in Van Nuys.
After Freeport agreed to divest a 214.56 percent stake in Grasberg, the world's second-biggest copper mine, Indonesia's Energy and Finance Ministries posted on social media #FreeportTaatIndonesiaBerdaulat, or "Freeport is obedient, Indonesia is a sovereign state".
After Freeport agreed to divest a 51 percent stake in Grasberg, the world's second-biggest copper mine, Indonesia's Energy and Finance Ministries posted on social media #FreeportTaatIndonesiaBerdaulat, or "Freeport is obedient, Indonesia is a sovereign state".
His children, obedient but dim Daniel and rebellious but brilliant Nina, are summoned to his lawyer's office for a Lear-like premortem division of his estate, wherein Nina does not get the one bequest she wants.
Sitting in the back of the classroom full of kids a quarter his age, Jay kvetches about how Odysseus is a lying adulterer, Telemachus an obedient weakling, and Homer simply wrong about love, war and justice.
By the time Sylvie was invited to join D.O.S. — the initials are an acronym for a Latin phrase that roughly translates to "Lord/Master of the Obedient Female Companions" — she was eager to join, she testified.
Padrino, in comments broadcast on state TV, said Venezuelan officers and soldiers were "obedient and subordinate" to President Nicolas Maduro, who some 50 countries around the world no longer recognize as the legitimate head-of-state.
About a decade later, in 1821, an anonymous poem called "The Children's Friend," featured a magical figure called "Santeclaus," who drove a reindeer-led sleigh full of "rewards" and filled obedient children's stockings with little presents.
More recently, the Murmansk Sea Biology Research Institute in northern Russia looked into the perks of militant whales, and found that whales lack the "professionalism" typically displayed by obedient sea lions and dolphins, according to the Guardian.
The most obvious sources of exploitation are the pimps, who hang around train stations looking for fresh-faced girls arriving in the big city, and then break them down psychologically and physically until they're obedient and codependent.
The sorority had a series of creepy names: In some reports, it was known as the Vow, while others referred to it as Dominus Obsequious Sororium, broken Latin for "lord over the obedient female companions," or DOS.
Adi: I thought (or at least hoped) the ending was a classic "manipulated pawn grows beyond its creator's control" twist, instead of the book's reflexive and easy "Mae betrays Ty and becomes a completely obedient Circler" conclusion.
I want to be the obedient daughter who marries the perfect suitable boy and gets admiration from everyone in my family, but I am just not impressed with the boys my mom thinks are perfect for me.
Some Jewish interpreters see the most important words in the story as Abraham's response to God—"here I am" or in Hebrew "hineni"—an expression which is held up as a model of obedient and attentive listening.
But to understand the potential of this sort of tech, don't think of it as AI; think of it as an obedient monkey that's house-trained and you've taught to recognize a visual cue of your choice.
Once an obedient satellite of Russia, the Balkan nation has joined the European Union and trans-atlantic NATO alliance in the last decade, and is replacing its ageing Soviet made MiG-29 planes with the F-16s.
Slowly, Taddeo unfolds the story of Lina's youth, explaining how a history of sexual violation might one day cause an obedient young woman to wake up convinced that she will die if somebody doesn't touch her soon.
DeGennaro described how the system turns the once-unquantifiable chaos of the game into obedient statistics ready for inspection.. SportVU generates huge amounts of data, however, and that's where machine learning—a type of AI—comes in.
A guilty verdict could create the potential appearance of more severe punishment for obedient officers who carried out the operation than for more senior officials who ordered it — a group that may include the crown prince himself.
So obedient to Gerry that she doesn't work because he doesn't want her to, she is the sort of person whose kindness and eagerness to please make her credulous, and far too tolerant of her husband's cruelty.
The primary goers were still casting their votes, and hundreds of us were waiting in a ragged, obedient line outside the Executive Court Banquet Facility, where Trump was expected to make an appearance at his official watch party.
Lopez brought the moves and style (including the infamous bedazzled bustier), but she also gave us a glimpse into Selena's life beyond her public persona, portraying her as the obedient daughter who longed to love and be loved.
A very cute and even more obedient Australian cattle dog has nailed the mannequin challenge, from his unmoving eyeballs down to the tip of his tail — unlike you hapless humans out there with your numerous half-assed attempts.
The longer he demonstrates that, the more likely it is that clubs will start to disregard it, that they will look in Korea and Japan not just for disciplined workers, for obedient citizens, but for potential superstars, too.
During the debates about women's rights and passing the Equal Rights Amendment, I repeatedly heard ministers insult and degrade women — and even call for their husbands to physically abuse them if they were not "obedient" — from the pulpit.
More than 115,000 young combatants have been demobilised since 2000, according to the UN. For the warlords who employ them, children offer many advantages: they are cheap, obedient, expendable, fearless when drugged and put opponents at a moral disadvantage.
From posters showing the US's evil aggression toward North Korea, to Kim's winter wonderland, controlling the message in the hermit kingdom is vital in order to keep citizens obedient and in the dark about the rest of the world.       
While it takes a majority of a company's shares to elect a director, it could take only the 2628 – 28500 percent of voters who make up Trump's base to swing elections to Republicans, so they remain obedient to Trump.
Those who have done their misdeeds abroad and have not participated in attacks at home are generally regarded as misled Saudi sons who need to have their thinking corrected so they can return to society as good, obedient subjects.
"The next Parliament will be completely obedient to Khamenei, more radical in their approach, and the little voices of dissent we hear on different issues will be silenced," said Roozbeh Mirebrahimi, an independent Iran analyst based in New York.
One acquaintance told reporters that he was "shocked" when he read Carson's account of his childhood in his autobiography, while others remembered him as a quiet and obedient kid who refused to break his mother's rule against crossing the street.
Both incoherently occupy a broad, populist political terrain: they offer protectionism to some low-wage workers and the promise of rising pensions, combined with an enthusiasm for money-making (so long as, in Mr Putin's case, the money-makers remain obedient).
Pearl, obedient and shy, wants to fade into the background at Auschwitz; feral and fearless Stasha is a "better fit" in their new environment, asking questions of anyone who will listen and quickly learning the rules that govern this alien world.
In indictments unsealed in Brooklyn and Chicago, federal prosecutors said Kelly, 52, ran a racketeering and human trafficking scheme that required the women and girls to be obedient, call him "Daddy" and ask permission to eat or use the bathroom.
Ms. Hicks kept a very low public profile, and seemed to play the alternating and overlapping roles of reliable staff member and admiring, obedient daughter to her attention-hungry boss, while never stepping into his limelight by speaking out of turn.
Throughout the week Mr. Erdogan issued a flurry of statements to Turkey's obedient media outlets, accusing Israel of genocide — "What Israel is doing is genocide" — and railing at the powerlessness of the United Nations to take any stand against Israel.
One way to see "The Rose Tattoo" is as a reversal of "The Glass Menagerie": instead of frigid, domineering Amanda and obedient, recessive Laura, we get a mother who shrinks from the world and a daughter who runs toward it.
Women of all ages would swarm Harris, including one elderly black woman in Las Vegas who thanked her for being "obedient" to her mother for making something of herself and pledging to do what she could to get her elected.
The characters on stage are portrayed in ridiculous ways: their obedient bow to the rich old woman is idiotic; their greed is farcical; their willingness to put aside loyalty is weak; their poor excuses for taking the money are laughable.
The childrenwho were usually so naughty, always playing tricks, improvising football games, and fighting wars on Eid with made-in-China squirt guns, now sat in an obedient row, frozen in fear, while my sisters stroked their heads and told them reassuring lies.
And the notion that Islam can provide all the answers has hit a dead end, whether in the form of strict but obedient Saudi salafism, the political Islam of the Muslim Brotherhood or the murderous jihadism of al-Qaeda and Islamic State.
"Just as I was thinking it would be great if the Doctor had some kind of valet or butler who wouldn't be very polite or obedient, Matt said he wanted to come back," Moffat says of bringing Lucas back to the fold.
The Communist Party of France was a slavishly obedient arm of Stalinism and the Soviet Union—which did not alter the other reality that, after the invasion of Russia, in 1941, many of the most courageous of the resisters would be Communists.
A year later, prosecutors said, a secret society formed within Nxivm called D.O.S. — an acronym for a Latin phrase meaning "Lord/Master of the Obedient Female Companions" — where women were "slaves" overseen by "masters" and ordered to have sexual relations with Mr. Raniere.
I'm aware it's meant to establish Offred's interiority — creating a juxtaposition between her biting, sometimes vulgar remarks and her obedient exterior — but the series thus far feels most potent when mining the horror of this dystopia in the quiet glances between characters.
Only a portion of the women in Gilead are Handmaids; others are Marthas, who cook and clean, or Aunts, who indoctrinate other women into the life style of subjugation, or Wives, obedient trophies who smile graciously while other women do all the work.
He said throughout the campaign that he would be a gadfly, not an obedient follower of the party line laid down by Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, whose allies spent heavily in Alabama trying to help Mr. Strange keep his seat.
"We still have a lot of people who are loyal and obedient to the gun lobby, not their constituents," he told us in between two votes at the Senate Dirksen office building just hours after the filibuster/sit-in ended on June 16.
" According to screens grabs and the Free Beacon , another user responded to Topolsky, "Yes, and Ben dreams of the handshake and shiny medal he&aposll get for being such an obedient boy," The Outline founder fired back, "Either way Ben ends up on his knees.
"Dancila seems like she will be more obedient to Mr. Dragnea, so it won't be better, and it could be worse," said Florin Badita, an activist who has helped rally people through a Facebook group he created after a deadly nightclub fire in 2015.
In fact, their leader turns out to be Camille's half sister, Amma (Eliza Scanlen), a beautiful girl who smokes, wears skimpy dresses and steals the flowers from a shrine for Natalie, but who plays the part of a modest, obedient daughter when Adora is around.
Michele, a 31-year-old member, told me about her experience of joining this group, which some women called the Vow, and others referred to by the solemn name Dominus Obsequious Sororium, broken Latin for "lord over the obedient female companions," or DOS for short.
Inside the barn, Lauren Hudson, a doctoral candidate at CUNY's Graduate Center, who researches anticapitalist organizing, explained how the witch trials in Europe and in the United States were an expression of state oppression by communities bent on growing an obedient, wage-earning labor force.
Except for the bulldog, whose days of toil baiting bulls are long gone, these are sporting or working breeds, most with big floppy ears and obedient personalities, several of which have played the lovable family dog in generations of prime-time dog-food commercials.
The Martin Scorsese film has been a strong awards contender across the board, but De Niro was snubbed by both the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild, suggesting that his performance as an obedient hit man may be too passive to galvanize voters.
Unfortunately for Rick, Negan didn't seem convinced that he was as obedient as Negan generally likes his followers to be, and once the duo got back to the rest of the group, Negan wanted Rick to prove his compliance by making Rick cut Carl's arm off.
Mr Lessig would like the electoral college to be "reflective" and "conservative", and assert itself only for "a very good reason", but it's hard to square this charming image of an obedient collection of right-thinking adults with Mr Lessig's point that no constitutional constraint binds them.
Evangelical leaders have spent decades demanding that presidential candidates pledge to govern a "Christian nation" by fusing conservative Christianity and government, producing obedient foot soldiers like Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann, none of whom managed to emerge as a real presidential contender.
That I could count on them to report the truth, rather than just be obedient to the powerful, helped me and millions of others in Turkey who have learned to seek news on social media rather than on the country's obsequious news outlets understand what was happening.
Contemporary news coverage of the 210-'22017 Manson trial tended to pant over the Manson girls, although it treated them mostly as anonymous objects: Manson was so powerful, those accounts seem to say, that he had all these beautiful obedient hippie girls falling all over him.
Authoritarianism is often assessed in social science research by asking people two or three questions about the relative importance of teaching their children obedience and respect, but our data shows a limitation of this approach: Not everyone who wants their kids to be obedient is an authoritarian.
Officials in Xinjiang have rounded up ethnic Uighurs and other Muslim minority groups in huge numbers, putting them into re-education camps where they are subjected to a severe indoctrination program to remove any devotion to Islam and make them obedient to the Chinese Communist Party.
She wants an obedient son, one who will wholeheartedly subscribe to her twisted world view and not even once considered that maybe he should listen to what the other side has to say instead of sticking his fingers in his ears and screeching until any dissent is silent.
Questions such as - did you want your child to be more independent-minded; or do you prefer they respect elders; do you wish that they would exhibit more curiosity or have good manners; do you want them to be more self-reliant or would you prefer they be obedient?
Well, the Republican Party may be obedient now, but there is just enough Never Trumping among those who were once the staunchest of conservatives to make it clear that the difference between constitutional conservatism and thuggishness is real and can be argued for, and maybe even partly won.
"A male friend had asked me about why I had chosen a boyfriend who was, in his eyes, more like a girlfriend: younger, prettier and obedient," she writes, and in her photos her boyfriend is submissive, vulnerable, and frequently nude, as male artists have so often depicted their muses.
The current grand mufti, Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh, is also on record advocating against Saudis' joining groups fighting overseas and, in keeping with traditional Salafi teachings, has called on all Muslims to remain obedient to the legitimate leader's dictates and avoid any form of organized political activism.
Out of deep anxiety over national security, President Paul Kagame has hammered into shape an obedient, organized society of law-abiding and law-fearing citizens who have grown accustomed to a strong government after the 1994 genocide, in which nearly a million people were killed in 100 days.
The meetings, according to Ms. Salzman, were for senior members of an ultra-clandestine group within Nxivm called The Vow, or D.O.S., which supposedly stood for a Latin phrase meaning "Lord/Master of the Obedient Female Companions," and took place in a house near Albany called the Sorority House.
Xi has warned Hong Kong of the costs of continued violence and urged the city to be more like neighboring and obedient Macao, renewing speculation that once National Day is out of the way, Beijing could launch a major crackdown in Hong Kong to get the city under control.
While playing the obedient patient, Betty learns the Gargoyle King is taking very scream-y meetings with other girls at the Sisters, undisputed villain Hiram Lodge (Mark Consuelos) is testing drug-laced fizzle rock candy out on the Sisters' patients, and Claudius Blossom (Barclay Hope) is somehow involved in this scheme.
Le Pen, who has taken hardline positions on "Islamic fundamentalism" and immigration, accused Macron of being "obedient to Islamist fundamentalists," repeating again and again that he has received the support of the UOIF (L'Union des Organisations Islamiques de France) — a loose organization of several hundred Muslim prayer spaces and religious organizations.
Star Trek Beyond is piloted by Fast & Furious director Justin Lin, which perhaps accounts for its vehicular muscle: The scenes of chase and pursuit by various makes of space hardware, including not only the Enterprise but a bird-like attack flock obedient to the evil Krall (Idris Elba), are beautiful and exciting.
Clegane's character development is even more powerful when you compare it to that of his brother, Gregor "the Mountain" Clegane, who has moved to the complete other end of the humanity spectrum and now exists as an unthinking, obedient weapon for Cersei, whose sole purpose is to kill for her political gain.
We are far, far away from the traditional left attitude that welcomed technological change as the handmaiden of abundance and increased leisure — or, for that matter, from the liberal optimism that permeated the culture of the 1950s and '60s, the optimism that offered up tantalizing visions of flying cars and obedient robots.
What is very much up for debate in the imaginations of economists and Hollywood producers is whether the future will look like "The Terminator," with self-aware Schwarzenegger bots on the hunt, or "The Jetsons," with obedient robo-maids leaving us humans very little work and plenty of time for leisure and family.
This pattern of older, veteran women in the group grooming younger, less experienced women can also be seen in DOS — aka "Dominus Obsequious Sororium," which translates from Latin to "lord over the obedient female companions" or "master over slave women" — the alleged "women's empowerment group" that made many question whether NXIVM is a sex cult.
For all their internal feuding, Democrats still remain a more obedient and orderly party than their counterparts on the right: They have not experienced convulsions on a scale of the Republican revolution of 2010, which saw multiple sitting senators crumble in primary elections and a host of far-right lawmakers elected to the House.
In addition to being attacked for their potty-mouthed humor, the "Captain Underpants" books have come under scrutiny because they are full of children playing tricks and disobeying and generally creating havoc; again, as with Junie B. Jones and her big mouth, there is this strange sense that children need stories about obedient model children.
Taking me upstairs, she led me into his room, which was spotless, almost antiseptic, a shrine to a sometimes mischievous yet fundamentally obedient boy who prayed at least four times a day, dressed in colorful shirts and smiled so much and so often that those who knew him could never imagine him being depressed.
It's not entirely clear to me how the elder Burov's views may or may not align with those of his son and Arkady, but given the betrayal Oleg and Igor felt over the government's refusal to acknowledge Oleg's brother's sacrifice with a military burial, I'm guessing he may not be quite the obedient little government official he seems.
" The U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of New York alleges Mack was an integral member of Nxivm, and was just below Raniere in a secret society within the group called "DOS" — which according to prosecutors is "an acronym standing for a Latin phrase that loosely translates to 'Lord/Master of the Obedient Female Companions.
All of this may have been less of an issue for the Sultan when oil money promoted an easier and more obedient quiescence, but with fewer resources to go around, the population is likely to want a greater say in what happens to them and the country, a situation that could spell the end of the monarchy.
As Steven Thrasher, a writer for the Guardian, pointed out in a Twitter thread, the idea that the passenger could have avoided this whole mess by being more obedient—the Chicago Police, for example, cited the fact that the man was "irate" and "yelling to voice his displeasure"—is the same logic that is usually applied to black victims of police brutality. 1.
The director is given to grandiose pronouncements like "If you're not prepared to risk your life, then leave now"; Irma, who serves as the Plautdietsch interpreter on set, cannily mistranslates the script so that, when the obedient wife is supposed to tell her husband that she loves him, she instead says that she is tired of putting up with his crap.
Ms. Salzman was a "first-line master," or high-ranking member of D.O.S., which was said to stand for a Latin phrase meaning "Lord/Master of the Obedient Female Companions," allowing her to provide a broad and detailed view of how the group was structured to create a pool of women who would blindly follow orders and submit to Mr. Raniere's control.
This past season of the Real Housewives spin-off has given us countless looks at why this coupling is doomed — like Jax's screaming meltdown a few weeks ago — but nothing has boiled down the Cartwright-Taylor household's problems like a single scene in Monday night's "Nothing Here For Me." The episode proves Jax doesn't want a partner — he wants an obedient, sexy shadow to follow him around everywhere.
Scouting is apolitical in its rules ("a scout is trustworthy and loyal"); scouting emphasizes looking out for each other and not using harsh words ("a Scout is helpful, friendly, courteous, kind"); Scouting teaches doing your duty with a cheerful countenance ("a Scout is obedient, cheerful, brave"); and Scouting emphasizes that all Scouts are stewards of the environment, human relationships and beliefs ("a Scout is thrifty, clean and reverent").
"I really felt like I started to hate the fact that I was a woman," said one witness, identified as Sylvie, who joined Nxivm when she was a teenager and became a member of D.O.S. In 2015, Mr. Raniere created D.O.S. — an acronym for a Latin phrase that roughly translates to "Lord/Master of the Obedient Female Companions" — as part of what prosecutors said was a scheme to provide him with a flow of submissive women.

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