0 the fact that people or animals do what they are told to do:
He demands unquestioning obedience from his soldiers.
The basic political assuption implicit in non-violent action is that governments are ultimately dependent on the fearful obedience and compliance of the people.
Ministers in conflict with their parishioners were quick to insist on the obligations of unconditional obedience.
With self-consciousness comes a demand for philosophical justification of the state-building process, but that process has been going on in obedience to elemental instinct.
It cultivated habits of obedience, and taught detainees to cooperate.
Judges placed a premium on speed, agility and obedience in getting around the course and in negotiating obstacles.
Inch by inch the disturbance rises as if the desert were rising in obedience to some upthrusting force beneath.
The moral duty of assent to the truth is always binding whilst the religious duty of obedience to authoritative correction is not.
An opposite reduction sets them firmly apart, in obedience to the names given to them by their makers.
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