Word: obeys
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...home, Karzai faces threats not only from resurgent Taliban along Afghanistan's border with Pakistan but also from regional commanders, who often refuse to obey the Afghan President. Karzai rarely leaves his stone-gated palace. His bodyguards--American special forces--are so wary of another assassination attempt that even Cabinet ministers are frisked before they enter his office. When Karzai left the palace last week to begin the journey that will take him to Japan and the U.S., American F-16 fighter jets prowled overhead to ensure that no missile-toting foe shot down his plane...
When a law is patently unjust—and several provisions of the PATRIOT Act certainly are—just people have no obligation to obey it. If Harvard researchers defy this law, morality and common sense will be on their side. Just as non-profits across the country have been challenging provisions of the Act that allow the Justice Department to wiretap private homes and businesses at will, academic institutions must be the ones to take the lead in challenging the legitimacy of the clauses dealing with research...
...children obey him and stare at their feet with sly smiles...
...exams, and you’re rather pudgy around the middle,” he says. “And the officers yell, ‘300 push-ups!’” Faced with a rigid command structure, Myat San says, the young men learn to obey their intimidating physical training instructors (“the gods of the island”) and to complain only on their own time...
Judith Brandt once waltzed onto “Crossfire” and flatly informed the CNN-watching public that she wasn’t going to obey their stodgy rules. Judith Brandt is a cheater. She wasted away 12 years in a less than happy marriage, and today admits she is the “other woman” in another man’s marriage. But Brandt doesn’t think there is anything wrong with this. She’s scoured tomes of biology and anthropology, only to conclude that cheating is a healthy impulse...