0 to act according to what you have been asked or ordered to do by someone in authority, or to behave according to a rule, law, or instruction: --
1 to do what you are told or expected to do according to someone in authority or a rule or law: --
The individuals' perception is that taxes and other laws must be obeyed.
The moral obligation to obey the norm is not yet a political obligation not to resist the might of the sovereign enforcer of the norm.
Or is it a duty to obey the law to the extent that we are seriously expected to obey the law?
Although thousands of people obeyed the law and the forestry officials' procedures, most probably did not.
The most common reasons that men cited were barrenness, wives' adultery, not keeping house correctly, and wives not obeying them or challenging their authority.
Authority refers to the rightful exercise of power with the claim to be obeyed and relates to the legitimacy of a government branch.
We may wish to consider only those sorted link graphs that obey some condition.
These relationships can never be grasped as merely causal, obeying some clear principle of mathematical logic.
