But perhaps more important: Sadr took his followers to task for not obeying orders.

NPR: American Raid Follows Sadr's Return to Public Eye

U.S. District Judge Lyle Strom, who apologized during the resentencing, was obeying orders from a higher court.

CNN: U.S. Briefs

Mr Bascomb's understandable distaste for his subject does not prevent him giving a good flavour of Eichmann's slippery arguments once he went on trial: sometimes denying that he did anything wrong, sometimes saying he was only obeying orders, sometimes pleading other extenuating circumstances.

ECONOMIST: Adolf Eichmann