obedecer

Nadie, en un ejército de voluntarios, puede proclamar que solo estaban obedeciendo órdenes.	Nobody, in a volunteer army, can claim they were just obeying orders.
Ellos estaban obedeciendo la letra de la ley, pero habían añadido sus propias tradiciones que esencialmente la anulaban.	They were obeying the letter of the law, but they had added their own traditions that essentially overruled it.
Tal parecía como que todos estaban obedeciendo órdenes de alguien muy superior a sus manipuladores del Opus Dei.	It was as if they were following orders from someone much higher and powerful than their Opus Dei controller.
En el intertanto, Gore, en su calidad de Comandante en Jefe legítimamente elegido, era a quien ellos estaban obedeciendo.	Gore, as the legitimately elected Commander-in-Chief, was whom they were reporting to, in the interim.
Alego que está claro que no puede haber defensa posible para ellos, salvo que estaban obedeciendo las órdenes de un superior.	It is clear, in my submission, that there could be no defence open to them except that they were obeying the orders of a superior.
Pero no estaban obedeciendo fielmente a su ley; y aunque se regocijaban por el regreso del arca como presagio de bien, no reconocían verdaderamente su santidad.	But they were not faithfully obeying His law; and while they rejoiced at the return of the ark as a harbinger of good, they had no true sense of its sacredness.