Translation for 'to obey sb' from English to French

to obey sb.

obéir à qn.

to obey sb./sth.

se conformer à qn./qc.

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to obey sb. slavishly

obéir à qn. au doigt et à l'œil

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to train sb./sth. to obey

façonner qn./qc. à l'obéissance

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to obey a summons

se rendre à une convocationdr.

to obey the rules

s'incliner devant le règlement

to put sb. on an equal footing with sb.

assimiler qn. à qn.

to place sb. under the protection of sb./sth.

placer qn. sous la protection de qn./qc.

to sneak on sb. to sb. [Br.] [dated]

cafter qn. auprès de qn. [fam.]

to intercede with sb. on sb.'s behalf

intervenir auprès de qn. pour qn.

to sit sb. beside sb. [at the table]

placer qn. à côté de qn. [table]

to mistake sb./sth. for sb./sth. (else)

confondre qn./qc. avec qn./qc. (d'autre)

to hide sb./sth. from sb.'s view

soustraire qn./qc. à la vue de qn.

to take sb./sth. away from sb./sth.

enlever qn./qc. à qn./qc.

to place sb. with sb. as a bodyguard

placer qn. auprès de qn. comme garde du corpsoccup.

to keep sb./sth. away from sb./sth.

tenir qn./qc. hors de portée de qn./qc.

to give sb. an advantage over sb. else

privilégier qn. sur qn. d'autre

to get sb./sth. used to sb./sth.

habituer qn./qc. à qn./qc.

to keep sb./sth. back from sb./sth.

éloigner qn./qc. de qn./qc.

to bracket sb./sth. with sb./sth. [equate]

assimiler qn./qc. à qn./qc.

to rat sb. out to sb. [Am.] [coll.]

cafter qn. auprès de qn. [fam.]

to make sb. feel sorry for sb.

apitoyer qn. sur qn.

to split on sb. to sb. [coll.]

cafter qn. auprès de qn. [fam.]

to take sb. to sb. [at home]

amener qn. chez qn.

• Augustine was among the earliest to examine the legitimacy of the laws of man, and attempt to define the boundaries of what laws and rights occur naturally based on wisdom and conscience, instead of being arbitrarily imposed by mortals, and if people are obligated to obey laws that are unjust.
• The expression "to obey God and the Messenger", which occurs among others in 3:132 or 4:69, is understood to mean that one follows the Messenger whose task it was to convey the Quran by following the Quran alone.
• In 1921, Lewis was the first to propose an empirical equation describing the failure of strong electrolytes to obey the law of mass action, a problem that had perplexed physical chemists for twenty years.
• Through his cross-identification writing style, Diderot manifested the demeaning Catholic standards towards women that forced them to obey their determined fate under the hierarchical society.
• In 2012, New York City required those performing "metzitzah b'peh", the oral suction of the open circumcision wound required by Hasidim, to obey stringent consent requirements, including documentation.

• There are broadly two categories of contempt: being disrespectful to legal authorities in the courtroom, or willfully failing to obey a court order.
• The letter urged his brethren to obey Attala, who stayed behind as abbot of the monastic community.
• He offers a theory of compliance overlaid by a theory of deference (the citizen's duty to obey the law) and a theory of enforcement, which identifies the legitimate goals of enforcement and punishment.
• The king was obliged to obey the common decisions made at this ting, and the most powerful man at this assembly was not the king, but the lawspeaker of Tiundaland.
• The first exact written mention of the word "parlamentum" (Parliament) for the nation-wide assembly originated during the reign of King Andrew II in the Golden Bull of 1222, which reaffirmed the rights of the smaller nobles of the old and new classes of royal servants (servientes regis) against both the crown and the magnates, and to defend the rights of the whole nation against the crown by restricting the powers of the latter in certain fields and legalizing refusal to obey its unlawful/unconstitutional commands (the "ius resistendi").

• Catholics were advised to obey the queen outwardly in all civil matters, until such time as a suitable opportunity presented itself for her overthrow.
• These restrictions depend on the reader software to obey them, so the security they provide is limited.
• Courts may choose to obey precedent of international jurisdictions, but this is not an application of the doctrine of "stare decisis", because foreign decisions are not binding.
• Miles is shipped off-planet to the Hegen Hub after refusing to obey what he considers to be a criminal order at a training camp and being accused of treason (again).
• The Molokans follow the Old Testament laws, refusing to eat Pork, shellfish or unclean foods, they additionally refused to obey Orthodox mandates on fasting.

• They measured the willingness of study participants, 40 men in the age range of 20 to 50 from a diverse range of occupations with varying levels of education, to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience.
• vehicle pursuit by base security, the man exited his vehicle carrying a "cylindrical object" and was shot dead by NNSS security officers and sheriff's deputies after refusing to obey requests to halt.
• In a course at the LSA summer institute in 1991, Alan Prince and Paul Smolensky developed optimality theory, an overall architecture for phonology according to which languages choose a pronunciation of a word that best satisfies a list of constraints ordered by importance; a lower-ranked constraint can be violated when the violation is necessary in order to obey a higher-ranked constraint.
• It was the mutual bond and obligation between monarch and subjects, whereby subjects were called their liege subjects, because they are bound to obey and serve them; and the monarch was called their liege lord, because they should maintain and defend them ("Ex parte Anderson" (1861) 3 El & El 487; 121 ER 525; "China Navigation Co v Attorney-General" (1932) 48 TLR 375; "Attorney-General v Nissan" [...] 1 All ER 629; "Oppenheimer v Cattermole" [...] 3 All ER 1106).