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

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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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  • 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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  • Snillingur is obedient and nimble, picking a careful path through the rocks.

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  • 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.

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  • "They are hard workers and obedient employees, " Zeng Xiangbiao, a shoe factory owner in Dongguan, told a Chinese reporter in a familiar refrain on immigrant labor.

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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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  • 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.

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  • And ahead of his date with destiny with Messi, Xavi and Iniesta -- all of whom he described as obedient 'schoolboys' in the Barca dressing room -- the outspoken Swede insists it will not be a lasting regret should he never lift the famous trophy.

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