(n.) Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition.
Example Sentences:
(1) If he felt his actions were consistent with civil disobedience, then he should do what those who have taken issue with their own government do: challenge it, speak out, engage in a constructive act of protest, and – importantly – accept the consequences of his actions.” “He should come home to the United States, and be judged by a jury of his peers – not hide behind the cover of an authoritarian regime.
(2) On February 13, during an act of planned civil disobedience, we both were arrested at the White House .
(3) And national activists say they have recruited more than 75,000 volunteers willing to participate in civil disobedience, should President Barack Obama approve the project.
(4) This could be the beginning of the end for Bulga but we are committed to using civil disobedience, if necessary, to frustrate this expansion, both for Rio Tinto and any future buyer of the mine,” Krey said.
(5) Children who improved and those with persistent problems were initially rated high on overactivity, concentration difficulties and disobedience.
(6) They were more restless, playful, demanding, disobedient.
(7) Instead of talking about the intricacies of tax, it offered spectacle and civil disobedience – and linked tax avoidance to the cuts.
(8) Enemies dismiss its moderate image and claim it is no different from Shia hardliners such as Mushayma, who called for a republic to replace the Al Khalifa dynasty, launched a campaign of civil disobedience and destroyed a dialogue between the opposition and the reformist Crown Prince Salman that might – just – have defused the crisis.
(9) The Danish parliament today passed legislation which will give police sweeping powers of "pre-emptive" arrest and extend custodial sentences for acts of civil disobedience.
(10) For those filling the streets of Moqattam, or the hundreds recreating the Harlem Shake in the same place last month, or the thousands who embarked on a campaign of civil disobedience in Port Said, the idea is laughable.
(11) Nathanson discusses the moral features unique to Operation Rescue, as well as counterarguments against the legitimacy of its activities, in an attempt to determine whether the organization's actions are a legitimate form of civil disobedience.
(12) Their anger has so far been contained to the country's Sunni strongholds, but it contains a counter-revolutionary zeal prompting observers to fear that today's civil disobedience could be the start of something far worse.
(13) But we were refused by the registrar, who said it was “not worth her job” to perform an act of civil disobedience.
(14) Spiers, a founding member of ACT UP, discusses the rationale behind the tactics of civil disobedience employed by AIDS activists.
(15) He for instance noted that now accepted social movements – such as gay rights and the movement to end slavery – began as illegal forms of civil disobedience.
(16) Ammon and his attorneys have continued to argue that the protests in Oregon constituted civil disobedience and that the occupation was not violent.
(17) In 2014, the fast-food giant saw its employees walk out, stage sit-ins and carry out other acts of civil disobedience on multiple occasions.
(18) He argues that civil disobedience is justified by American political and legal traditions, and by the federal government's lack of response to the needs of its citizens.
(19) On Saturday, workers voted in favor of including civil disobedience in their efforts to reach a $15-per-hour minimum wage and the right to form a union without fear of retribution from employers.
(20) Contrasting an imaginary German laboratory worker who in 1939 sabotaged experiments involving the mentally retarded, and an imaginary American animal liberationist who recently vandalized a primate research facility, Singer discusses civil disobedience by animal rightists.
Disobey
Definition:
(v. t.) Not to obey; to neglect or refuse to obey (a superior or his commands, the laws, etc.); to transgress the commands of (one in authority); to violate, as an order; as, refractory children disobey their parents; men disobey their Maker and the laws.
(v. i.) To refuse or neglect to obey; to violate commands; to be disobedient.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Some soldiers won't fire on the Egyptian people, but others are too scared to disobey orders.
(2) Navalny was jailed and given a 20,000-rouble (£280) fine by a Moscow court for disobeying police orders and organising the protests, which led to more than 1,000 people being detained.
(3) The move comes after other southern cities and provinces declared they would disobey the Sana’a-based administration following Hadi’s resignation.
(4) The attack on the school in Borno is a punishment and a warning to those who disobey.
(5) Boris Nemtsov , a former deputy prime minister, was detained after the officially sanctioned demonstration and sentenced to 15 days in prison for "disobeying police".
(6) It was like Nigeria died, having to queue for every little thing, soldiers flogging anyone who disobeyed.” Identity politics is never far in Nigeria, and Buhari’s image as a strict Muslim may cost him support in the more liberal and more Christian south.
(7) And, yes, I've heard all the arguments about cyclists disobeying the road rules.
(8) He continued: "People who make the laws we have to live under break them anyway, just like criminals routinely disobey gun laws.
(9) O'Mara insisted Zimmerman had not disobeyed the police dispatcher's instruction not to follow Martin.
(10) On Friday, Dutton alleged some refugee advocates in Australia, as well as “a small number” of staff on Manus Island, were encouraging detainees to go on hunger strike, to self-harm or disobey the orders of staff.
(11) Journalists should not disobey the dictates of those in power.
(12) Two key leaders of this "people's stroll", Alexei Navalny and Sergei Udaltsov, were sentenced to 15 days in jail on Wednesday for disobeying police orders.
(13) And he revealed that he would disobey orders if Trump ordered him to use waterboarding, and that most in the agency were also opposed.
(14) Adel was charged with public indecency and disobeying military orders.
(15) Modric refused to train last Friday and he further disobeyed orders on Saturday when he failed to report for the flight to Los Angeles , where the club have begun their three-city tour of the United States.
(16) They did not know because the means put in place to inform them were, as Snowden clearly shows, being circumvented and disobeyed.
(17) But it was exhilarating to watch kids hopping over metro barriers, smoking weed and shouting, walking wherever they wanted, disobeying every single one of the tight rules that normally control access to the station.
(18) "Those who are willing to obey [outside powers] will be supported, those who disobey will offered nothing but hunger and siege.
(19) Kasambara added: "The president has disobeyed the national assembly and the judiciary.
(20) But this morning, I feel a bit like all of that was wasted time and energy, because this new column by career British journalist Chris Blackhurst - an executive with and, until a few months ago, the editor of the UK daily calling itself "The Independent" - contains a headline that says everything that needs to be said about the sickly state of establishment journalism: In other words, if the government tells me I shouldn't publish something, who am I as a journalist to disobey?