The activists were shot when they refused to obey an order to halt.

当那些激进分子拒绝听从要他们停下来的命令时，他们遭到了射击。

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Refusing to obey an order which violates rules, regulations, procedures, or is illegal.

拒绝服从违反了规定、条例、流程或非法的命令。

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In 2005 the German federal administrative court ruled in favour of an army major who had refused to obey an order in case it implicated him in the Iraq war.

2005年，德国联邦行政法院对一名陆军少校拒绝服从前往伊拉克前线的命令的行为投出了赞同票。

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The European Commission has given Microsoft a formal warning for failing to obey an order to give customers a choice of internet browsers.

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The commander of Russia's forces in Chechnya, General Vladimir Shamanov, has said publicly that he and his top colleagues would resign rather than obey an order to stop the war.

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The charges, which the mayor denies, stem from the city government's failure in 2001 to obey a court order to halt construction of an access road to a private hospital.

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