obediently

obedient | American Dictionary

obedient
adjective
us/oʊˈbid·i·ənt/
doing or willing to do what you have been asked or ordered to do by someone in authority:
an obedient child

obedience

noun[ U ]us/oʊˈbid·i·əns/
She demands absolute obedience to the rules.

Examples of obedient

obedient
Revised moral education textbooks together with imperial rescripts were issued with the aim of reminding subjects of their duty to be loyal and obedient.
Teachers' authority is seldom challenged, and this authoritative role awes the students into obedient listeners.
It is also clear that regardless of the goals and expectations of the authorities, the poor were not always obedient and deferential.
The patient is no longer the passive, obedient object of physician beneficence.
The state needed obedient and disciplined subjects, and the prison became-alongside the school, the conscript army, and the psychiatric hospital-a disciplining institution.
It also contradicts the conventional wisdom that labour and production investors in these countries are meekly obedient and have no bargaining strength.
Normally the client would declare his loyalty, affection, respect and desire to render obedient service.
The words obedient, honored, ordered, able, and approachable are all similar because they begin with a vowel.
His wives and daughters are depicted as chaste and, along with his sons, obedient.
Indeed, obedient or not, an average person's behavior typically has no discernible effect on her state's capacity to per form its functions.
Sons had not always been obedient nor daughters submissive.
From early childhood, they have been trained to be obedient and learn by rote.
This new approach to the study of political markets emphasises that once elected, politicians and legislators should not be expected to be obedient and passive servants of the people.
There is no real basis, in this model, to speak of patient responsibilities other than the patient's responsibility to be obedient to the physician in terms of recovery.
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