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Citizenship has been an essentially passive legal status involving few demands beyond obeying the law.
BBC: Should we pick up other people's litter?
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After a rare year obeying the law of physics, Internet advertising is back to its gravity-defying ways.
FORBES: Internet Ad Spending Comes Back, Hard
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He believed in obeying the law but not in trying to make the world a better place.
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There can only be tax evasion, a criminal matter, or tax compliance, which is obeying the law.
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We also all know what tax compliance is, obeying the law just as the politicians expected and hoped you would.
FORBES: EBay Is Not Avoiding Taxes, No. This Is Instead the Point Of The System
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So I don't think that it's fair to assume that just because a lot of Hispanics are in this country illegally that the Hispanic community generally is for not obeying the law.
NPR: Senators Grassley, Brownback on Immigration Reform
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In the United States, where, of course, there is just such a constitution, civic duties are defined in law - they're the responsibilities of citizens to their country, such as obeying the law and paying taxes.
BBC: Is there such a thing as civic duty? And do we feel it?
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First thing we did was to streamline the legal immigration system to reduce the backlog, make it easier, simpler and cheaper for people who are waiting in line, obeying the law, to make sure that they can come here and contribute to our country.
WHITEHOUSE: The White House
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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.
ECONOMIST: Expenses-gate
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This means those who break the law, and those who do not, learn that obeying laws is for suckers.
CNN: Commentary: Legalize drugs to stop violence
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He was told by the envoys that all indications were that the origin of attacks on the United States came from Afghanistan, and they warned that Pakistan was intent on obeying international law on matters of terrorism.
CNN: U.S. awaits Taliban decision on bin Laden