6 sentences with “obedience”

The Russian Orthodox Church was closely tied to the government and preached total obedience to the tsar's authority.

From all his subjects, men and women alike, Napoleon expected the same thing that was demanded of women in family life: obedience.

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.

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.