superior's order

"You are probably the only functionary in the world who thinks a superior's order is meddling."

Tezlin came up beside him and was quiet, awaiting his superior's orders.

The sin of being caught disobeying a superior's orders.

Starscream then attacks the base on his superior's orders.

After much argument without any satisfactory result, Li decided to go against his superior's order and allow the local populace to have enough to eat.

"We're supposed to follow a Mother Superior's orders with absolute devotion.

The Mother Superior's orders took on a new meaning as did words from the Manifesto itself.

"Your job is to carry out your superior's orders to the best of your ability," I replied.

"Even when they've led him to defy a superior's orders, and maybe even violate interstellar law in the process?"

For most of the accused, the defense showed that they either had not participated, or had done so by obeying a superior's orders.

The door behind her opened and Streggi stood there awaiting the Mother Superior's orders.

Inspector Cardona wouldn't jeopardize his status by knowingly defying a superior's order.

Ooi finally withdrew his statements after denying previous calls by certain parties, as an adherence to his superior's order.

This principle could be paraphrased as follows: "It is not an acceptable excuse to say 'I was just following my superior's orders'".

Bennigsen decided to disobey his superior's orders by standing and fighting on 26 December at Pułtusk.

They said only: "Mother Superior's orders."

Holman disobeys his superior's orders and ends Po-Han's suffering with a fatal rifle shot.

In 1577, following his refusal to relocate after his superior's orders, he was jailed in Toledo, and later freed.

In these veiled days filled with memory and the Dream he found it easier to follow his superior's orders than to seek answers to politically loaded questions.

Odrade saw it then: Teg knew Taraza's complete design and intended to carry out his Mother Superior's orders to the very end.

Obregón disobeyed his superior's orders, but won several battles by luring his enemy into traps, surprise assaults, and encircling maneuvers.

Jericho heroically saves the trapped men, in defiance of his superior's orders to abandon ship, but he accidentally kills the officer in the melee.

In a final gesture of disdain, Klor did not turn, did not respond to his superior's order, but sat and stared at the readout on the helm console.

In the RCN, carrying out a superior's order always took precedence to wondering why the sanctimonious jackass had chosen to give the order in the first place.

It is common for workers to be fired or suffer severe repercussions if they do not satisfy their superior's orders, despite there being no justifiable basis for such orders.