He had argued that he had been put under pressure by the girl and was unable to disobey her.

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And it is because he understood that people live each day within a variety of value systems that he could write a great poem about how two people could allow appetite, seemingly rational argument and love to lead them to disobey a divine command.

ECONOMIST: Literary criticism

There will be a tougher approach to immigrants who disobey the law.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

To hear the call and disobey.

NEWYORKER: From Weymouth

At all banks there is a struggle between head office, which wants to centralise processes, and local staff who are in thrall to the demands of local officials and industrialists and who disobey their branch managers on whom they depend for their promotions at their peril.

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But in eastern Congo several rebel commanders disobey orders from Kinshasa, Congo's capital, and still look to their former sponsors in Kigali, Rwanda's capital.

ECONOMIST: Congo