verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
disobey/ignore an order
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Anyone who disobeys these orders will be severely punished.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
order
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I should have liked simply to disobey orders and stay in the trench.
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He tells them how he was punished for disobeying orders .
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A pardon need not imply that a soldier did not desert, or show cowardice, or disobey orders .
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No matter what your instructions are, it is difficult to disobey a direct order from the President of the United States.
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A soldier who feared flying was fined £600 yesterday for endangering a civil aircraft and disobeying the captain's orders .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Black had disobeyed the judge's ruling, and continued to harass his ex-wife.
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It was unfair of the teacher to make us stay after school, but no one dared disobey .
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My father was very strict and old-fashioned, but I never disobeyed him.
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Pilots who disobey orders to land can face up to five years in prison.
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Protestors disobeyed the law and blocked the city's main roads.
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Troops openly disobeyed orders, refusing to use force against their own people.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A pardon need not imply that a soldier did not desert, or show cowardice, or disobey orders.
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Christians, he insisted, had to disobey any who went against the law of reason or the codes of religion.
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Conversely, you may be entitled to disobey an instruction which management ostensibly has the power to give.
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He tells them how he was punished for disobeying orders.
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I should have liked simply to disobey orders and stay in the trench.
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It made her glad she was disobeying them; gladder still that she and Rob were lovers.
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No matter what your instructions are, it is difficult to disobey a direct order from the President of the United States.