follow

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to obey someone or something
obeyChildren must obey their parents.
followAll religions guide youths to follow the teachings of elders and parents.
complyThere are serious penalties for failure to comply with the regulations.
observePeople must observe the law.
adhere toThey failed to adhere to the terms of the agreement.
abide byPlayers must abide by the referee's decision.
The court issued a contempt citation against city council members who refused to comply with a court order.法庭对拒不遵守法庭命令的的市议会成员们发出了藐视法庭的传票。
He was happy to comply without any further urging from me.
He was jailed for refusing to comply with the court order.
The builders have not complied with the architect's instructions.
She had very set views about the funeral, and everyone was happy to comply with her wishes.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Obeying & breaking the law
abide
abide by something
adhere
adhere to something
afoul
bac
buck
comply
contravene
derogation
disobey
enforcer
fall foul of somethingidiom
go by the book
guiltiness
guilty
infringement
shalt
venal
violation

Examples of complying

complying

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

This raises the obvious question of what the motives of the complying men were.
Actors belong to a social world by accepting common norms and by establishing legitimate interpersonal relations complying with these norms.
For example, a parent may feel strongly that a preschooler should begin complying with demands for simple, familiar tasks.
The other studies all identified factors involved in older people participating or complying with falls-prevention programmes.
They appear to have no qualms about policy evaluators complying with this strategy of regulation.
First, it must satisfy the judge by complying with evidence law.
However, while the pass-through is high, complying with this objective implies achieving a stable exchange rate.
If civil servants are protected under the law, there is a greater possibility that they will resist complying with elected politicians' policy preferences.
Then it seems that the teller is culpable for complying with the threat.
During the actual sampling period, research staff repeatedly called the subjects to assess whether they were complying with the instructions.
The adults' greater ability lies in their capacity to act according to their own advantage, whilst complying with the limits set by the situation.
The cost of complying with government regulations is lower enabling the firm to provide higher benefits for the same cost.
Being a soldier, seemingly, above all, entailed being disciplined and complying with the hierarchical organisational structure of the military.
Rather, complying with the rules whose internalization has the greatest expected value will sometimes require doing what act-consequentialism condemns.
If differences in the cost of complying with environmental policy are small, then their effects may not be measurable empirically.
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