Life was ruled by pressure from the Roman Catholic Church, and women were expected to conform, and be pious and obedient.
The woman shouted and the dog withdrew, reluctant but obedient.
The world sees stereotypes of waitress or Tiger Mom, but even within my own ethnicity, I am also supposed to fit into a box -- that of obedient child.
James Freyn, the narrator, is 106, a dropped-out philosophiser, reminiscing into Cowley's tape-recorder about a trip he made in his 20s into the interior of a god-forsaken British colony in South America, to collect two horses from a French-Swiss religious nutter worshipped by robotically obedient natives.
Tamerlan "swaggered" through the family home like a "man-of-the-house type, " one visitor recalls, while Dzhokhar seemed "very respectful and very obedient" to his mother.
Correspondingly, we have watched the deterioration of the sense of stewardship that once was so widespread among the most successful Americans and the near disappearance of the sense of seemliness that led successful capitalists to be obedient to unenforceable standards of propriety.
The students have to be utterly obedient and work as a collective whole.
So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded.
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Japanese workers are extremely obedient, hard-working and loyal to their group.
Snillingur is obedient and nimble, picking a careful path through the rocks.
Even obedient kunkis refuse orders to breach the eye-stinging ropes.
For the law-obedient, bank privacy is more fiercely guarded in Switzerland than here.
The government says that the existing service, answerable to the cabinet secretary in London, can be the obedient servant of whatever combination of parties happens to rule in Westminster, Cardiff or Edinburgh.
Well into his 80s Mr O'Brian was content to continue to be the obedient recorder, in fine handwriting, of the exploits of Aubrey, by now an admiral.
Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient, and guard in (the husband's) absence what Allah would have them guard.
During this time of celebration, her parents give her advice for a successful marriage: Be obedient, work hard for your family, have many children and be a good mother to them.
An easy country drive down a winding road, obedient commuters letting each other in as we get toward Weston Center, the first town on the route.
In the past ten years, obedient to the findings of urban sociologists, American cities have tripped over themselves vying for young, creative people.
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