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How to use the word obeying in a Sentence?

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The explanation is simple: while you might take some guns away from criminals, if you primarily have law-abiding people obeying the ban, you mainly disarm law-abiding people and make it easier for criminals to commit crime.

– John Lott

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is about total collapse of the health care system if we have another spike, and we, in the hospital, can not stop that. We can only react to it. It is the public that has the power to put a stop to the spread of this virus by obeying the public health guidance that have been put out.

– Brad Spellberg

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Good order and discipline is also obeying orders from the president of the United States.

– Richard Spencer However

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

He wasn't obeying their order to put it down, so it was definitely some sort of a protest.

– Daniel Kingery

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Everything boils down to what Britain does, if it transfers Chagos Islands to Mauritius -- and it has a history of obeying these rulings -- then it's up to Mauritius. If they say the existing agreement is no longer valid, then( Jeremy Corbyn) would have to renegotiate.

– Carl Schuster

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Saving lives at sea is a duty, but transforming Italy into an enormous refugee camp is not, italy is done bowing its head and obeying. This time there's someone saying no.

– Matteo Salvini

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Nature is commanded by obeying her.

– Francis Bacon

added by anonymous
11 years ago

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

– Benjamin Franklin

added by anonymous
14 years ago

We cannot command nature except by obeying her.

– Francis Bacon

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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