Citizenship has been an essentially passive legal status involving few demands beyond obeying the law.
But perhaps more important: Sadr took his followers to task for not obeying orders.
In the vast majority of cases, obeying anti-immigration laws would mean never getting to live here.
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Not obeying these rules, or just daring to criticise them, can bring very harsh sentences.
But Mr Serra countered by accusing Ms Rousseff of electioneering and robotically obeying her strategists.
This means those who break the law, and those who do not, learn that obeying laws is for suckers.
Although constitutionally independent of the executive, the TSJ has a history of obeying the president's wishes.
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What if there is a shootout and a worker, dutifully obeying company rules, cannot defend himself?
Cyclists are (largely) responsible, obeying both the traffic signals and the arm signals used by fellow cyclists.
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Thomson Reuters is committed to obeying the rules and regulations in every jurisdiction in which it operates.
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After a rare year obeying the law of physics, Internet advertising is back to its gravity-defying ways.
U.S. District Judge Lyle Strom, who apologized during the resentencing, was obeying orders from a higher court.
He believed in obeying the law but not in trying to make the world a better place.
There can only be tax evasion, a criminal matter, or tax compliance, which is obeying the law.
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And leaders now have to vote in secret on big decisions instead of just obeying the party chief.
So Iraq's security forces will go on obeying a multinational force, led by the Americans, throughout the transition.
We learned how to wrestle it into more or less obeying our will.
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Most people might think they already have that freedom--by obeying the signs or keeping the parking meter stocked with quarters.
We also all know what tax compliance is, obeying the law just as the politicians expected and hoped you would.
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East European politicians, perhaps because of their history, are used to obeying tough instructions from outside, and imposing them brusquely.
Consider this story from Sacramento about the fiscal havoc wreaked by people becoming more scrupulous about obeying the parking laws.
And yet it is obeying another basic rule which both would advocate.
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With anti-American demonstrations spreading across the country, what may just have been soldiers obeying a simple order could turn into a tipping point.
Some servicemen are so repelled by what they have been made to do in Darfur that they are finding ways to avoid obeying orders.
Georgia is a clannish country in which doing favours for friends is regarded as a moral obligation far more so than obeying footling little rules.
For the very good reason that at that point Amazon would in fact be obeying the rules over who can sell what book where.
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And both men's denial that rules had been broken merely draws attention to the difference between obeying the letter of the law and behaving ethically.
Evan Ebel's bracelet, worn as a condition of his release to confirm he was obeying curfew, signalled on 14 March that it had been tampered with.
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Nor are we suggesting that enforcement officials are obeying direct cues from the government by going after situations in Pakistan or Venezuela versus Germany or Australia.
Say you are watching TV and see that there is a protest going on downtown and that the protesters are not obeying police orders to disperse.
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