• 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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  • 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.

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  • "They were educated in a system that knew nothing of collegiality and were trained to be obedient to the Pope but in a very, very short time - perhaps two or three weeks - with daring, but gently, they threw out the preparatory materials, " he told Robert Mickens of The Tablet.

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  • 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.

    NPR: For Bombing Suspects, Question May Be Who Led Whom

  • Even obedient kunkis refuse orders to breach the eye-stinging ropes.

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  • 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.

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  • The students have to be utterly obedient and work as a collective whole.

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  • 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.

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  • The clones, which have been genetically modified to make them more obedient, are seen by the movie's heroes as little more than another military technology, like battle droids or light sabers. (The clone army apparently plays a role in the downfall of the heroic Jedi Knights, even turning one, Anakin Skywalker, into the evil Darth Vader.) These clone warriors are the ultimate mindless flunkies.

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  • Japanese workers are extremely obedient, hard-working and loyal to their group.

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  • Life was ruled by pressure from the Roman Catholic Church, and women were expected to conform, and be pious and obedient.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • Mr Johnson was an obedient Blairite, and has recently advertised his enthusiasm for electoral reform, but that scarcely amounts to a distinct political philosophy.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

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