Example sentences for: disobedience

How can you use “disobedience” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Should we ask Microsoft Corp. to prove its bona fides as a media company by backing an act of journalistic civil disobedience?

  • He should have got sued, sure, and jail was entirely appropriate for this particular act of civil disobedience, but as an occasional customer of the Golden Arches (personally, I prefer Wendy's) and French-American dual national, it's splendid to see someone willing to take a risk for their principles now and then, particularly when it's a blow against a monolithic transnational corporation that built itself up by underpaying children who ought to be at home studying for the next day of school rather than learning the mysteries of deep-frying every night.

  • Advocating civil disobedience, he led his famous Salt March to the sea, to scoop up salt and circumvent the hated British salt tax.

  • St. Augustine held lust to be a fitting punishment for man's disobedience to God: the body's disobeying of the mind, the will, the spirit, and even of itself.

  • Air Force Secretary Sheila Widnall refused to grant an honorable discharge, citing Flinn's alleged "lack of integrity and disobedience to order" and warning that a special exemption would discredit the military-justice system.


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