Word: disobeyance
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...there is a small group at Harvard whose job it is to disobey these signs. They weigh the permanence of a fifth-century Greek vase in their hands, or they dust off the skirt of a Degas dancer's dress. They are the men and women who work on the top two floors of the Fogg Art Museum, at the Center for Conservation and Technical Studies...
...King's importance lies in his willingness to disobey a given law because there is a higher one," said Bryan K. Askew '85. "All students, Black as well as white, should be willing to sacrifice a secular law for one that transcends human error...
...Testament is not "first and foremost" the story of God's intervention on behalf of an oppressed people, but the account of God's covenant with the Hebrews. When they follow his sometimes bizzare commandments and caprices. God rewards them; when they disobey, he punishes them, often with slavery at the hands of other nations that God is using as instruments of his will. We can perhaps gleam a sense of God's compassion from the following passages...
...Summary proceedings will be undertaken against citizens violating martial law. Poles over the age of 17 may be interned at isolation centers if their past behavior gives rise to suspicion that they will disobey martial law or engage in activity that threatens the "interest, security and defense of the state...
...educators, who are already concerned about President Reagan's endorsement of tax credits for private school tuition payments. They listened warily to the conclusions Coleman drew from a survey of 58,728 sophomores and seniors in 1,016 high schools. Public school sophomores appear twice as likely to disobey, fight or commit acts of vandalism in schools. Only a quarter of the public school sophomores said they spent more than five hours a week on homework, in contrast with nearly half in Catholic and other private schools...