What's the difference between astray and obey?

Astray


Definition:

  • (adv. & a.) Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The single-celled organism has four "watermarks" written into its DNA to identify it as synthetic and help trace its descendants back to their creator, should they go astray.
  • (2) The willingness to ignore their misconduct has led us all astray and increased the public's lack of trust in all journalism.
  • (3) In an article for the New York Times in 2009, Krugman wrote : "As I see it, the economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth."
  • (4) It didn't lure me astray – I'm done with my youthful experimenting – but it did occur to me that it was not all that helpful to parents trying to warn their kids not to try skunk when they could sample it just by breathing the air.
  • (5) The Gijon goalkeeper Ivan Cuellar was on fine form, particularly against Ronaldo, while Real’s approach play looked lethargic and too many passes went astray.
  • (6) "Market share" and other phrases can lead you astray.
  • (7) He helped us by looking into some money for the area that had gone astray.
  • (8) "Isn't it true he has been led astray by the Tories?
  • (9) This is stuff [Isis] already has.” The Pentagon cleared up some confusion about a cache going astray on Sunday that had subsequently been destroyed in a US strike, once it had been realised it was in danger of falling into Isis hands.
  • (10) Based on a review of the literature it can be said that a main obstacle to a rational approach to prevention and health promotion in the elderly, seems to be on the one side our lack of knowledge of what constitutes effective intervention, and on the other a feeling of great urgency--which may easily lead us astray.
  • (11) But if it was not a giant mental disorder, was there a huge conspiracy that led Tamerlan and Jahar astray?
  • (12) They’re not brainwashed by American R&B or led astray by song lyrics.
  • (13) Clegg came under attack from Harriet Harman yesterday when he stood in for David Cameron at prime minister's questions while students marched on Whitehall to be told that he had been "led astray" by the Tories during the negotiations to form the coalition government.
  • (14) Memory can lead us astray, but then it is a machine with many moving parts, and consequently many things that can go awry.
  • (15) It may have been built on debt and a financial sector going quietly astray, but they enjoyed 40 successive quarters of economic growth.
  • (16) In this paper, will be described how some of the most important advances were made, and where the explorers sometimes went astray.
  • (17) Sally did not see a bank statement from Nationwide for the entire period the money was going astray.
  • (18) Amid all the uncertainty, experts argue that if a warhead had gone astray in that critical period in the early 90s, it would probably have been detonated by now.
  • (19) That she has been led astray and manipulated by the abuser.
  • (20) 'They're scared to write much, in case the letter goes astray.

Obey


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To give ear to; to execute the commands of; to yield submission to; to comply with the orders of.
  • (v. t.) To submit to the authority of; to be ruled by.
  • (v. t.) To yield to the impulse, power, or operation of; as, a ship obeys her helm.
  • (v. i.) To give obedience.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Under these conditions the meiotic prophase takes place and proceeds to the dictyate phase, obeying a somewhat delayed chronology in comparison with controls in vivo.
  • (2) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
  • (3) Maybe he was simply obeying orders, since Gordon Brown is not about to sanction a radical overhaul of the tripartite system of financial regulation he created.
  • (4) In contrast, Na+ uptake in the steady state obeyed Michaelis-Menten kinetics.
  • (5) The durg obeyed two-compartment model kinetics in serum, and elimination was monoexponential from 1 to 2 h after dosing.
  • (6) The data also indicated that the particle-size distributions were largely independent of the type of solution and obeyed a power law of the form N greater than D = N greater than 1DK.
  • (7) A leading Democratic member of Congress, Dave Obey, chairman of the House appropriations committee, called for him to be sacked.
  • (8) It concludes that psychological structures are recently evolved transactional processes that masquerade as explanatory entities, but obey rules of intentionality: a hypothesis with clinical and forensic implications.
  • (9) Calcium conductances (g(Ca)) as functions of time and voltage were found to be described quantitatively on the assumption that g(Ca) is determined by two variables (m and h), according to the equation g(Ca) = m(6)hg(Ca), where g(Ca) is a constant and m and h obey first order differential equations of the Hodgkin-Huxley type.6.
  • (10) But there was scepticism over whether the more radical elements on either side would obey the ceasefire, and concern in Kiev and western capitals that the truce would effectively "freeze" the conflict and give Moscow de facto control over the disputed chunk of eastern Ukraine that has been ruined by war this summer.
  • (11) If the president and Congress would simply obey the fourth amendment, this new shocking revelation that the government is now spying on citizens' phone data en masse would never have happened.
  • (12) The strength of this genetic control, however, systematically diminished throughout the course of practice obeying a monotonic trend over trials.
  • (13) This interaction is expressed by phenomena that obey similar parameters.
  • (14) However, there was relatively restricted diffusion in the collecting tubules; this may account for the failure of whole kidney ammonium excretion to obey quantitatively the predictions of nonionic diffusion and diffusion equilibrium of ammonia.
  • (15) Analysis of drug pharmacokinetics in numerous species demonstrates that drug elimination among species is predictable and, in general, obeys the power equation Y = aWb.
  • (16) 'Your only right is to obey': lawyer describes torture in China's secret jails Read more Separate reports have said two other civil rights attorneys, Li Heping and Wang Quanzhang, have also been tortured while in custody.
  • (17) The inhibition of the amidolytic activity of highly purified kallikrein preparations from human blood plasma obeys the pseudo-first order kinetics.
  • (18) Twenty two patients with confirmed MI obeying strict inclusion and exclusion criteria were studied.
  • (19) Assuming that the catalytic action of the enzyme obeys a Michaelis-Menten rate expression and that the deactivation of the enzyme follows a first-order decay, the present analysis employs the dimensionless, integrated form of the overall rate expression to obtain a criterion (based on the maximization of the determinant of the derivative matrix) that relates the a priori estimates of the parameters with the times at which samples should be withdrawn from the reacting mixture.
  • (20) "It doesn't mean we're going to establish a theocracy and force people to obey what they think is God's law."