Word: obey
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Rather than obey a judge's order to allow her daughter to visit her father, plastic surgeon Elizabeth Morgan sent the girl into hiding and spent more than two years in a Washington jail. Now Hilary Foretich, the seven-year-old girl at the center of one of the most bitter and highly publicized custody cases in memory, has been found in Christchurch, New Zealand...
Admitting sufficient facts is "tantamount to a guilty plea," according to Sherman. But under the terms of the agreement reached yesterday, the defendants will have no criminal record if they obey probation conditions through the end of the year...
Violent crime continues to rise in cities like New York and Washington even after severe firearm-control statutes were rushed into place. Criminals, understandably, have illegal ways of obtaining guns. Antigun laws -- the waiting periods, background checks, handgun bans, et al. -- only harass those who obey them. Why should an honest citizen be deprived of a firearm for sport or self-defense when, for a gangster, obtaining a gun is just a matter of showing up on the right street corner with enough money...
...dictators govern by fear. Long-suffering citizens obey orders only because they are convinced that a single individual has no hope of opposing the overwhelming forces loyal to the state. A dictator falls when fear changes sides, when individuals coalesce into crowds and defy him. Emboldened by the discovery that they are not alone, they take to the streets and squares to protest, and they learn -- though sometimes at great cost -- that no tyrant can kill or arrest an entire nation. At that point, despots lose the special combination of visible authority and legitimacy that the Chinese call "the mandate...