(n.) The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control.
(n.) Words or actions denoting submission to authority; dutifulness.
(n.) A following; a body of adherents; as, the Roman Catholic obedience, or the whole body of persons who submit to the authority of the pope.
(n.) A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by a prior.
(n.) One of the three monastic vows.
(n.) The written precept of a superior in a religious order or congregation to a subject.
Example Sentences:
(1) Devolution mitigated the authority but also undermined the obedience.
(2) "Dreaming only of sleep and a sip of tea, the exhausted, harassed and dirty convict becomes obedient putty in the hands of the administration, which sees us solely as a free work force.
(3) Obedience to authority has been implicated in hypnotic behaviour from the earliest theories.
(4) Before his speeches on race, he was an obedient, relatively undistinguished servant of the state.
(5) They are those who have chosen a following of Jesus that imitates his life in obedience to the Father, poverty, community life and chastity.
(6) Disillusioned voters saw that even the PSOE offered little more than cowed obedience to Merkel’s demands for more austerity.
(7) The result was that London had an authority to which Scotland had to be obedient.
(8) Some ethical implications for nursing practice are considered in relation to three issues: competence, honesty and obedience.
(9) The lesson is clear: when push comes to shove, obedience to God trumps human decency, to say nothing of obedience to the next commandment, "Thou shalt not kill".
(10) Neither age nor sex differences in obedience rate were found.
(11) Benedict argued that the church will survive by becoming a smaller obedient Church, a just "remnant".
(12) But I want to highlight two specific points about all of this which relate to several of the topics I wrote about in my first week here, as well as some of the resulting reaction to that: First , there are multiple institutions that are intended to safeguard against this ease of inducing blind trust in and obedience to authorities.
(13) We should realise that as in many eastern societies, the existence of developed people with their own independent opinions is not too wide, and there are many statesmen who care only for obedience and full subordination.
(14) I love cats more than dogs, but the reason I love cats is because a cat would never deign to appear on an idiotic digital channel obedience programme.
(15) They had an excessive startle response, sometimes with echolalia, echopraxia, or forced obedience.
(16) But I am forgiven and I love my Lord and must be obedient to Him and the Word of God.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pro and anti-gay marriage protesters converge on Kentucky clerk’s office.
(17) In Kingsley Amis’s The Alteration (1976), the Reformation has not happened and England remains a Roman Catholic country, obedient to the religious rule from Rome of a Yorkshire-born pontiff, who seems to be a caricature of Harold Wilson, British prime minister at the time Amis was writing.
(18) It is still a potentially incendiary work of art, very much concerned with the tipping point between mass obedience and unstoppable uprising.
(19) In this period what the papal encyclicals usually term "atheist communism" has spread a far wider sway over regions of traditional Roman Catholic obedience.
(20) One day the British were there, immovable, complete masters; next day, the Japanese, whom we derided, mocked as short, stunted people with short-sighted squint eyes.” After the second world war when the British were trying to reestablish control: “... the old mechanisms had gone and the old habits of obedience and respect (for the British) had also gone because people had seen them run away (from the Japanese) ... they packed up.
Respect
Definition:
(v. t.) To take notice of; to regard with special attention; to regard as worthy of special consideration; hence, to care for; to heed.
(v. t.) To consider worthy of esteem; to regard with honor.
(v. t.) To look toward; to front upon or toward.
(v. t.) To regard; to consider; to deem.
(v. t.) To have regard to; to have reference to; to relate to; as, the treaty particularly respects our commerce.
(v.) The act of noticing with attention; the giving particular consideration to; hence, care; caution.
(v.) Esteem; regard; consideration; honor.
(v.) An expression of respect of deference; regards; as, to send one's respects to another.
(v.) Reputation; repute.
(v.) Relation; reference; regard.
(v.) Particular; point regarded; point of view; as, in this respect; in any respect; in all respects.
(v.) Consideration; motive; interest.
Example Sentences:
(1) The absolute recoveries of diazepam, nordazepam and flurazepam in human milk were 84, 86 and 92% and in human plasma 97, 89 and 94%, respectively.
(2) Between 25 and 40 degrees C, the thermal dependencies of VR and f were approximately constant (Q10's of 1.31 and 1.36 got VR and f, respectively).
(3) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).
(4) Maximum increases in portal plasma secretin concentrations of 143, 146 and 190% and maximum increases in VIP of 116, 155 and 147% after, respectively, intraduodenal 0.1 M NaHCO3, 0.1 M Na2CO3, and 0.025 M NaOH were found.
(5) No differences between the two substances were observed with respect to side effects and general tolerability.
(6) Although Jeggo's Chinese hamster ovary cells were more responsive to mAMSA, novo still abrogated mAMSA toxicity in the mutant cells as well as in the parental Chinese hamster ovary cells 2,4-Dinitrophenol acted similarly to novo with respect to mAMSA killing, but neither compound reduced the ATP content of V79 cells.
(7) The results demonstrated that K2PtCl4 was bound to a greater degree than CDDP in this system with 3-5 and 1-2 platinum atoms respectively, bound per transferrin molecule.
(8) We conclude that only one of the alleles was amplified and that either allele could be amplified with respect to both the SphI and PvuII polymorphisms.
(9) Contact angles of Silafocon A and PMMA were relatively uninfluenced by front surface radii between 7.7 and 8.85 and 7.3 to 8.8 mm, respectively.
(10) Four cytotoxic antibiotics, bikaverin, duclauxine, PSX-1 and vermiculine, were examined with respect to their interference with glycolysis and respiration and their possible ionophoric or cytolytic activity.
(11) The results show that endolymph is extremely inhomogenous with respect to calcium potentials.
(12) These effects are similar to those reported for AVP and phorbol esters, activators of protein kinase C. Forskolin and isoproterenol, which induce cAMP accumulation, activated extractable topoisomerase II (maximum 5-15 min after treatment), but not topoisomerase I. Permeable cyclic nucleotide analogs dBcAMP and 8BrcGMP selectively activated extractable topoisomerase II and topoisomerase I activities, respectively.
(13) The ORF2 showed homology with the Escherichia coli regulatory gene ompR, and ORF4 showed homology with E. coli and Rhizobium meliloti regulatory genes fnr and fixK, respectively.
(14) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
(15) The overall recoveries of activated ER following chromatography on DEAE-cellulose were significantly lower than the recoveries of the nonactivated ER, 71 and 85%, respectively.
(16) MAF-G activity was inhibited by mitomycin C and colchicine, which inhibit DNA synthesis and mitosis, respectively, but not by 2-deoxy-D-glucose, an inhibitor of glucose metabolism.
(17) The criticism over the downgrading of the leader of the Lords was led by Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, a former Scotland secretary, who is a respected figure on the right.
(18) In patients with less favourable disease status the 2-year overall and DFS were 73% and 50% respectively.
(19) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
(20) Statistically significant differences were found mainly in the randomized trial, where during the first and second years, respectively, adenoidectomy subjects had 47% and 37% less time with otitis media than control subjects and 28% and 35% fewer suppurative (acute) episodes than control subjects.