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Example sentences for "blind obedience"

  • The full-grown free man revolts at blind obedience, and he regards all obedience as in some measure blind for which he sees only an extrinsic command.

  • The person who desires to enter the lodge is obliged to have his face covered and his eyes bandaged in sign of blind obedience; the proofs are carried out and signature made as follows.

  • Its type is a highly interesting example of the first variety, that of blind obedience.

  • In the first variety Destiny is fulfilled by the agency of blind obedience.

  • In this way an ironical oracle comes to be fulfilled by the agency of blind obedience.

  • Blind obedience is not required for the commission of a crime, but in duties known to be pious {215} and moral, in actions evidently laudable.

  • Berthier, in blind obedience to the Emperor, who had misread the situation, was compelled to neglect the first principles of war and to attempt to block all possible lines of advance instead of concentrating in a strategic position.

  • The Emperor, however, much as he insisted on blind obedience to his own orders, soon forgave the Duke of Elchingen, and heaped his wrath on the unfortunate Massena, whom he held responsible for the failure of the campaign in Portugal.

  • Efficiency was everything, and efficiency he considered was only to be gained by personal inspection of detail considered in relation to existing conditions, and not by blind obedience to hard and fast rules.

  • The first chapter in book II is entitled "Anabaptism of the Jesuits in their vow of blind obedience.

  • It is noteworthy that the lawmakers who issued these regulations profess to be shocked by the Jesuit doctrine of "blind obedience.

  • You must yield blind obedience to your superiors, and this requirement of passive, blind obedience is the prime injunction of the Roman Church!

  • No longer shall we submit in blind obedience to you, or to a foreign Pope.

  • They were dangerous because the order required of all its members a blind obedience, an absolute submission.

  • No man, not even a papist, dare preach in public such a dogma as blind obedience in anything, or to any man.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    blind alley; blind girl; blind man; blind obedience; blinding flash; does come; even after; forty yards; getting money; hospital nurse; interior lines; its course; lemme tell; lime water; marvellous thing; mass destruction; might have; never read; private hands; small girl; state legislature; still holds; text reads; travelling companion; while waiting; would never have been