What's the difference between disobey and infract?
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?
Infract
Definition:
(a.) Not broken or fractured; unharmed; whole.
(v. t.) To break; to infringe.
Example Sentences:
(1) The estimated yearly hospital admission rate for nonfatal myocardial infraction is 2.1 per 100,000 married women aged 30-39 years who do not use oral contraceptives and 5.6 per 100,000 for married women of this age who do.
(2) Until the final quarter San Diego had looked lost in the windy conditions at Mile High, conceding repeated neutral-zone infractions and failing to show any adventure on offense.
(3) Typical manic episodes could be the cause of penal infractions, usually benign.
(4) As at the five other jails in Philadelphia, inmates and advocates have accused Curran-Fromhold of overcrowding, unhealthy conditions , inadequate mental health services and repeated infractions by guards.
(5) It is suggested that infraction of the metatarsal head resulted from microfracture caused by abnormal stress.
(6) The EC has rejected both proposals and commenced formal infraction proceedings against the UK.
(7) The outstanding features in this study are: (1) the occurrence of infraction during the recovery period and the noxious role played by smoking; (2) the contrast between the presence of atherosclerotic coronary lesions in middle age subjects and their absence in younger subjects (infarction due to spasm or thrombosis?
(8) There is, for example, the case of a 34-year-old local woman forced to remove her headscarf by male police officers following an alleged minor traffic infraction, a 10-year-old elementary school student in a nearby suburb who is bullied everyday by his classmates labelling him an Isis terrorist, or the group of East Michigan college students arrested after they peacefully protested a campus screening of the controversial blockbuster American Sniper .
(9) In the cases of ventricular tachycardia with old myocardial infraction, the initiation and termination of the tachycardia could be achieved by programmed electrical stimulation in 13 out of 18 patients.
(10) Critics said the scheme, under which police are also targeting infractions by lorry and car drivers, distracted from the primary issues of better cycling infrastructure and the perils of heavy goods vehicles.
(11) Noncompliance with universal precautions occurs frequently during the care of patients who have undergone surgery, with the type of infraction and specific offender varying according to patient locale.
(12) Fifty-two patients with myocardial infraction complicated by bundle branch block (27 RBBB and 25 LBBB) survived the hospital period (1967--1972), and were followed up to December 1976.
(13) Penalties have been assessed for rule infractions to aid in curtailing the misuse of such equipment, as occurs for example, when the helmet is used to spear tackle an opponent or when the facemask is grasped, pulled, or twisted by an opposing player.
(14) Photograph: Felix Clay Of 13 deportees the Guardian interviewed in Tijuana last week, nine said they were picked up for minor infractions.
(15) Finally he remembered a man who had been suspended by the ANC for some minor infraction of discipline and who was only too pleased to show repentance by driving his president anywhere he wanted at any time of day or night.
(16) The association of a primary cardiac lymphoma in a 53-year-old man with a previously documented myocardial infraction was found.
(17) In addition to periostosis and sclerosis there is also a clearing as an expression of interrupted bone in a form of infraction, fissure or fracture.
(18) A case of Freiberg's Infraction of the second metatarsal is presented.
(19) During 1416 appendectomy operations we examined the ileum and found 42 cases of terminal ileum infraction (ileum terminale duplex) caused by the cicatrisation of the mesenterium.
(20) Their rate of absenteeism and suspensions for continuing abuse and infraction of the rules was four times that of the controls.