6 sentences with 'obedience'
Example sentences and phrases with the word obedience and other words derived from it.
• « They were made up of 'knightly monks' who took monastic vows (i.e. of obedience, poverty and chastity) but who spent their time fighting as well as praying. »
• « There were also many occasions during the Middle Ages when individual popes were weak and ineffective and could not even enforce obedience within the ecclesiastical hierarchy itself. »
• « From all his subjects, men and women alike, Napoleon expected the same thing that was demanded of women in family life: obedience. »
• « The Russian Orthodox Church was closely tied to the government and preached total obedience to the tsar's authority. »
• « On 31 January 1813, the General Constituent Assembly began its sessions in Buenos Aires. The Assembly immediately declared itself sovereign and received the Triumvirate's oath of obedience. »
• « Through these relationships, we learn certain models of authority, of command and obedience relationships, of expressing agreements or disagreements: dissent, of managing spaces of power. It is possible to think about whether at home, at school or at work one is the owner, author and manager of one's own life. »