Example sentences for: obeying

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

  • Kinsey, like every other social scientist since the Enlightenment, was simply obeying the central tenet of his discipline: that the scientific study of society is possible; that the results of such study are a better basis for policy than, say, the Mosaic interdiction against homosexuality.

  • William Saletan accuses him of cleverly obeying those rules while offending journalistic ethical values all the same.

  • Hoffman evidently thinks that he has chosen the last Western society in which a young woman, Hermia (Anna Friel), could plausibly be threatened with death for not obeying her father's command to marry his choice of suitors, in this case Demetrius (Christian Bale)--although David Strathairn's Theseus is such an apologetically lightweight patriarch that the threat seems incongruous.

  • Note, however, that the cross-elasticities stop short of obeying the Slutsky-Schultz condition.

  • Starr's confidence that he was obeying the law insulated him from examining his behavior in moral terms.


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