obéir
- Examples
Il avait obéi à la Loi depuis sa jeunesse, dit-il. | He kept all the Law from a youth, he said. |
Si Lot avait obéi a Dieu sans s'être attardé, il ne perdrait pas sa femme ! | If Lot would have obeyed without delay, his wife would have not been lost! |
Si Samson avait obéi aux commandements de Dieu aussi fidèlement que ses parents, sa carrière eût été plus noble et plus heureuse. | Had Samson obeyed the divine commands as faithfully as his parents had done, his would have been a nobler and happier destiny. |
Selon lui, cette dette aurait été effacée depuis longtemps, si l'investissement étranger direct avait obéi aux mêmes normes rigoureuses que les crédits bancaires privés. | It should have long been written off, argued the speaker, if the international financial institutions had applied more stringent standards of private bank lending. |
Si le roi avait obéi au Seigneur, la vie de ses sujets aurait été épargnée, et la ville aurait évité la catastrophe. | Had the king chosen to obey, the lives of the people might have been spared, and the city saved from conflagration; but he thought he had gone too far to retrace his steps. |
S’il avait obéi à la police secrète qui lui avait délivré le passeport pour aller en Allemagne, le jeune professeur aurait dû, à sa rentrée en Pologne, remettre à la police une fiche d’information sur le futur pape. | If he had obeyed the secret police, who had given him his passport for Germany, on returning to Poland the young professor would have had to have given the police a report on the future pope. |
Random Word
Roll the dice and learn a new word now!
