Which preposition to use with disobedience
And this misfortune befell them by their disobedience to what injunctions Judas had given them not to fight with anyone before his return.
We need not paywe ought not to payfor incompetence, for impertinence, for disobedience of orders, for laziness, for shirking, for cheating, or for theft.
Get ready for harvest," suddenly ordered old Dorn, as if he had just awakened to the fact of Kurt's disobedience in lingering here.
He who, in disobedience toward God, deals with things in a way contrary to their nature, behaves as though he were mightier than the author of nature.
God is represented as a tyrant when he claims the penalty of disobedience from the servant, who has wilfully incapacitated himself for obeying,and yet just and merciful in condemning to indefinite misery a poor "deluded victim of ignorance and imposture," even though the Barrister, spite of his antipathy to Methodists, would "weep in agony" over him!
Kurt made an honest confession of his disobedience without once excusing himself by saying that he had only done it to destroy all foolish superstition and by this means to become her helper.
He laid down that an archbishop's spiritual rights are indestructible; that in all cases submission to law was the highest duty; and that it was better humbly to accept even a harsh sentence than to set an evil example of disobedience by which others might be led to their ruin.
His master, Sir William Berkeley, in a memorial to parliament, had just said: "I thank God that there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best governments.
She said nothing about what was nearest her heart, however, she started instead to complain of some petty disobedience on the part of Keith.
The act once consummated, Maurice gave himself up to some hours of bitter suffering, made inevitable by what he considered a grave act of disobedience against the best of mothers.