That's so different, and better, than obey.

Uncritical conformity to group norms.

Are you willing to abide by majority decision?

And we've had to refuse to fear failure.

Each State Party shall guarantee that a person who refuses to obey such an order will not be punished.

The police dismissed an initial court order demanding that Biti be produced before the court.

Yet compliance has been patchy at best.

The US warned Israel not to get involved, and Israel was forced to comply.

You break out that Leviathan Force, you promise, you guarantee that you're going to mount one hell of a immediately follow on Sys Admin effort.

I do not think anybody could give a more logical explanation... for refusing to obey the challenge of our patrol boat.

After all, political careers depend on acceding to the demands of the central government.

Quite simply, there is no other way of playing the game than by the rules of the financial markets.

To be sure, compensation committees and boards tend to follow shareholders wishes, even if they are not legally obliged to do so.

Segways may have the right of way but riders also have to obey the traffic signals even on blistering cold days.

Some of the soldiers who were ordered to beat us and to stop us from marching actually refused to do so, because they understood the truth of what we were doing.

It was therefore regrettable that some States failed to comply with the rulings of the International Court of Justice, the Organization's principal judicial organ.

In all these cases, American involvement was swift and focused on a clear aim, and compliance was verifiable within days, if not hours.

They generously reward the lapdog press, while castigating genuine watchdog journalism or any media outlet that refuses to toe the official line.

We are pleased that the leaders of the Bosnian Serb community presented the Secretary with a statement calling for the arrest or surrender of Karadzic and Mladic and pledging that full ICTY compliance would be their top priority.

For his part, Mohamed Ould Rabani, Secretary General of the independent syndicate of secondary education teachers, slammed the transfer as a dangerous precedent in the history of Mauritania and asked his colleagues not to conform to the ministry's orders.

The time when force was a source of law has now passed. There must be respect for law and for the right of peoples to choose their own path.

Neo conservative pundits drew the conclusion that the United States was so powerful that it could do whatever it wanted, and that others had no choice but to follow.

For 60 years, Israel has tried to use its overwhelming military prowess to cow the Palestinians into accepting the fate it dictates for them, and for 60 years no Israeli government has been able to do that.

I was wondering why is the list for men missing when we are blessed to have such long list of illogical customs for women.

Furthermore, it must comply with Security Council resolution 487 (1981), which explicitly calls upon Israel urgently to place its nuclear facilities under IAEA safeguards.

Russia s military chiefs, for whom it is psychologically difficult to be ordered by politicians to abruptly end a large scale and successful military operation, are their natural allies.

That is the basis of the international community's important responsibility to apply pressure on Israel to ensure that it abides by the relevant international resolutions.

2. Each State Party shall ensure that orders or instructions prescribing, authorizing or encouraging enforced disappearance are prohibited. Each State Party shall guarantee that a person who refuses to obey such an order will not be punished.

However, present circumstances stood in the way of that aim, as Israel refused to heed the demands of the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that it should give up holding and stockpiling nuclear weapons.

We appeal to the world's governments, international agencies and NGOs to resist and denounce American attempts to destabilize and discredit the example of valour, courage and solidarity set by the Cuban revolution.

Ten years later, the message remains the same If you obey your government, your follies (no business in Russia is free of kickbacks and bribes) will be forgiven.

Second, there can be no free riders, so trade sanctions the only effective sanctions that the international community currently has can and should be imposed on those not going along.

It also reaffirmed that the real problem lay in the refusal by Israel to comply with international law and General Assembly resolutions, and believed that the implementation of those resolutions required greater efforts from the international community and the Security Council.

Only when East Jerusalem is returned to its people, when United Nations resolutions are completely complied with and implemented and when the leaders of both countries are able to come freely from Jerusalem, will we have truly achieved the peace that we have so long awaited.

Moldova appears set to cave in to Russia s pressure, partly to attract desperately needed inward investment at a time when little aid has come from the West, particularly the EU.

In all these cases, American involvement was swift and focused on a clear aim, and compliance was verifiable within days, if not hours. In such dramatic situations, US power is at its greatest.

Now, more than ever, we must believe this, for Russian troops wearing Ukrainian uniforms have entered our country, because Ukrainian soldiers are refusing to carry out orders to crush those who are demonstrating to defend our democracy.

The emergence of sustainability as a critical element in growth strategies in the worlds future largest economies is an extraordinarily positive development, because national needs, goals, and priorities remain much more powerful incentives than international agreements.

That 8 target will be met, because in China directed objectives are always attained, and often exceeded. After all, political careers depend on acceding to the demands of the central government.

You could say that Venezuela now exists as a lawless legality, a political system within which officials deny that in making or interpreting laws they are bound in any way by the spirit of justice that underpins those laws.

I, and many of my generation, recall the photograph of the burly Socialist MP, Raj Narain, a former wrestler, being carried out of the house by four attendants for shouting out of turn and disobeying the speaker s orders to return to his seat.

Rather than buckle to France s will, however, the Romanian president warned France s leaders to stop lecturing his country a sure sign that French influence is on the wane even in countries with which it has had close historical ties.

The international community must exert all efforts to compel Israel to abide by all of its legal obligations under international law and to return to the peace process in good faith and refrain from any unlawful actions that would undermine a renewed dialogue between the two sides.

And the last time (on 8 March, 2013) I was not arrested because of a protest or for a blog post but because I refused to yield to an unannounced and illegal curfew. I even blogged about it and attempted with some fellow bloggers to initiate a state of refusal for this emergency state enforced by the authorities.