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Obedient in sentence

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But I wonder who remembers Joe Darby, the very obedient, good soldier who found those photographs and handed them in.
Equally critical is that the measure of how free a society is is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens, but how it treats its dissidents and those who resist orthodoxy.
And most importantly, it uses both formal and informal systems of influence and control to keep members obedient, with little tolerance for internal disagreement or external scrutiny.
She was obedient, she did whatever her parents wanted.
A dial in a sense that you can make almost everybody totally obedient, down to the majority, down to none.
What you are seeing here, is that Callie is not a particularly obedient dog; she has no particularly special skills.
Stanwyck may temporarily have regressed into being an obedient wifey, but I give the marriage a month.
Trained, obedient, mindless parrots.
And he partially understood this very well, as "The Girl from Rio" revolves on a man-hating organization, led by a funky dressed lesbo, that plots to turn all men into obedient slaves!
In the oppressed state of affairs as seen in Fire, where good women had to be obedient and do what was correct in the eyes of tradition, there seemed few options for Radha and Sita.
Indeed, there is something of a taboo on writing about Tsarukyan, and with good reason: not only is he rich, but also he controls an army of obedient skinheads.
In addition, many Sunni scholars have argued that Al Qaeda’s ideology and tactics are illegitimate, and that Muslims should refrain from jihad and remain obedient to their rulers.
If soldiers – and, by extension, all “real” men – are strong and daring, then real women should be the antithesis: passive, obedient, and in need of protection as “good” wives, sisters, and mothers.
The USTR assumes that China’s government not only has a clearly defined investment strategy, but also that an army of obedient firms is willingly carrying it out.
It is with less obedient people that he has problems – say, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, imprisoned for more than ten years after backing Putin’s political opponents;Anna Politkovskaya, brutally murdered in 2006 for her investigative reporting on his regime’s misdeeds in Chechnya; and Sergei Magnitsky, a whistleblowing lawyer who died in prison in 2009 after being refused medical treatment.
Asians were naturally obedient to higher authority.
With frankness and brute force the Kremlin supported three parties: The “Union of Right Forces" led by Boris Nemtzov, Sergei Kiriyenko, and Anatoly Chubais; the ever obedient to the Kremlin mob of Vladimir Zhirinovsky; and "Edinstvo” (meaning Unity or Bear), specially created for the election by Yeltsin's administration.
According to this view, every great power needs obedient satellite countries.
Ever since the 2012 “Shareholder Spring,” shareholders have stopped acting as passive recipients of companies’ reports or obedient rubber-stampers of their plans and pay packages, and started actively and publicly questioning board decisions, airing grievances, and submitting proposals for change.
For all his semi-encouraging talk, Medvedev has stressed continuity over change, and his references to Putin’s presidency have been as reverential as he has been obedient.
If the polls are accurate, the loyal and obedient are a clear majority – at least so far.
Thais were more like obedient subjects than informed citizens.
The US seems to prefer an obedient one-party state to a difficult, faltering, but more democratic partner in Asia.
The Party, he insisted, can command respect and maintain the legitimacy of its rule only if cadres are obedient, set an example of incorruptibility, and place the nation’s interests above their own.
In 2008, Putin circumvented constitutional consecutive-term limits by having his diminutive, obedient, and easily forgettable deputy prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, keep his seat warm until he could return to the presidency in 2012.
Kudrin, who replaces the former Accounts Chamber chair Tatyana Golikova (who was obedient but lacking in stature), provides a curious counterbalance to Medvedev.
Or will Nemtsov's death finally move complacent and obedient Russians to action?
Like Mao in 1966, Xi believes that his power hinges on making all Chinese – government officials and ordinary citizens alike – loyal and obedient through any means possible.
The way that party bosses, in China no less than in Japan, get rid of irksome rivals is to bring them down through public scandals, leaked to an obedient press, which then fans the flames.
But many observers thought that peaceful and obedient Belarusians – who even stopped at traffic lights when occasionally demonstrating for their rights – would not protest en masse.
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