disobey

“I felt,” Whitman later wrote, “the clear and unmistakable conviction to disobey all, and pursue my own way.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

“The constitutional protections in our military structures depend on the idea that there are humans who would, we hope, disobey illegal orders. With fully autonomous weapons we don’t necessarily have those protections.”

From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2026

“You can’t put on the screen that it’s right for a young girl to disobey her father,” Nava recalled Quintanilla saying.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2025

Both the Nuremberg shorthand and Mr. Deluzio’s claim miss the mark: There is no general, affirmative legal duty to disobey an unlawful order.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

The luckiest thing he had ever done was to disobey his mother and show this cup to Cilia last July.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

Black hair disobeys temporality as surely as it does gravity ...

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2022

She disobeys her grandfather’s warnings by befriending the white brother and sister across the street, and a complex relationship forms as she both envies and emulates their freedom.

From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2022

While each service has developed its own process, all are following existing rules for when a service member disobeys a lawful order.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 16, 2021

Emma disobeys orders and tends to him, despite his repeated pleas for her to stay away.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2020

Call her name, I tell my mouth, but it, too, disobeys.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi

"If I had disobeyed my mother and gone to New York, what might have happened to me?" asks Gláucia Fekete.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026

"Irancell disobeyed the orders of the decision-making institutions in implementing the announced policies regarding the restriction of internet access in crisis situations," the agency said.

From Barron's ● Jan. 18, 2026

Under the 2024 Manual for Courts-Martial, “an order requiring the performance of a military duty or act may be inferred to be lawful, and it is disobeyed at the peril of the subordinate.”

From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2025

She knew the only way they could be together is if she disobeyed her father, but in a sense, it would be healing the whole family.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2025

I didn’t want Pap to know I’d disobeyed his orders, so ’stead of using their proper names I didn’t say nothing more than “It’s all right, li’l pup” and “There, there, girl.”

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis

Back when Hal was still a novelty to the public, we see 10-year-old John disobeying his father’s TV ban to watch the hero’s first-ever interview on “60 Minutes.”

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

Separating from the military takes months, and will almost certainly be complicated by a red flag in one’s record for disobeying orders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

Last month fines went up ten-fold for blocking the road or disobeying the police and Tamar Oniani says in one day alone they received 150 calls from protesters who had been fined.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2025

Alawieh’s lawyers accused the government of “willfully” disobeying the court’s order, prompting Sorokin to demand an explanation.

From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2025

If I help him, I could end up riding the pine this season, and if I don’t help Boy21 acclimate to Bellmont, I’d be disobeying Coach for the first time in my life.

From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick