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When dozens of officers at the Curragh, the British Army’s principal base in Ireland, announced in March 1914 that they would refuse orders to enforce home rule in Ulster — with the private encouragement of generals in London — Asquith’s Cabinet caved in to their demands and covered up the entire affair, insisting that no mutiny had occurred because no direct orders were disobeyed.

The recalls were issued because the system was programmed to run stop signs at slow speeds and because the system disobeyed other traffic laws.

Witnesses were also also expected to say he “personally shot and killed two people — a rival cartel member, and a subordinate who disobeyed orders.”

It's probable that many of them, staying true to the healthy medieval tradition of popular resistance against unjust laws, disobeyed Philip's ordinance, preferring to risk a fine than guarantee their own ruin.

“She felt that if she disobeyed him, he would take away her dreams of pursuing a career in this world,” the suit contended.