obedience

Example Sentences

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Padrino was one of few close Maduro allies to have remained in the interim government, having sworn "loyalty and absolute obedience" to Rodriguez.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

It is about the importance to society of “obedience to the unenforceable”: “the obedience of a man to that which he cannot be forced to obey.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

In Nazi Germany, for instance, soldiers took a “holy oath” of “unconditional obedience to the Leader of the German Reich and people, Adolf Hitler, supreme commander of the armed forces.”

From Slate • Nov. 21, 2025

Their power to keep a country functioning, he stresses, relies on the cooperation and obedience of those they govern.

From Salon • Sep. 30, 2025

Oh yes, but I know better than to let this capacity interfere with a slavish obedience to orders.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich