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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
disobey .
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Examples
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This technicality was then extended to mean that we had "disobeyed" the police officers.
Sit-In at Pelosi's Office After Breaking Promise on Kucinich Amendment 2009
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This technicality was then extended to mean that we had "disobeyed" the police officers.
Printing: Sit-In at Pelosi's Office After Breaking Promise on Kucinich Amendment 2009
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This technicality was then extended to mean that we had "disobeyed" the police officers.
Sit-In at Pelosi's Office After Breaking Promise on Kucinich Amendment 2009
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First it was the outing of Prince Harry and the backlash from big media outlets that the Drudge Report had 'disobeyed' the embargo for discussing Harry's whereabouts as a British soldier.
Tidbits of Dangers--Potential and Not--in the B'sphere Christina Kim 2008
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First it was the outing of Prince Harry and the backlash from big media outlets that the Drudge Report had 'disobeyed' the embargo for discussing Harry's whereabouts as a British soldier.
Archive 2008-03-01 Chihiro Ikegami 2008
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Have I ever with the slightest word disobeyed you? "
The Mischief Maker 1906
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An underground current in the U.S. military's officer corps believes that their legally elected civilian leaders can be disobeyed if an officer believes their orders to be "immoral."
Robert Mackey: Politicizing the "Managers of Violence" Robert Mackey 2010
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No, we are talking about an underground current in the U.S. military's officer corps, in which some officers believe that their legally elected civilian leaders can be disobeyed if the individual officer believes the order to be "immoral."
Robert Mackey: Politicizing the "Managers of Violence" Robert Mackey 2010
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We aren't talking the ethical, moral, and legal requirement of military officers to disobey orders that are unconstitutional, violate U.S. or international law, or are obviously of such crass evil to be disobeyed out of hand.
Robert Mackey: Politicizing the "Managers of Violence" Robert Mackey 2010
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Seems pretty clear that he resisted arrest and disobeyed a lawful order toboot.
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