It is possible, however, that education reinforces authority and the power of ruling elites; indeed, it may often be designed to do precisely this.
By comparing newspaper accounts of Durham, North Carolina city council meetings with direct observations of those meetings, the authors identify a number of mechanisms through which local print media reinforce the authority of local governing bodies.
The memo is consistent with the steps Mr. Xi has taken to reinforce party authority, which atrophied as China shifted toward capitalism.
De Gaulle's great influence and the pressures of unstable political conditions tended to reinforce the authority of the presidency at the expense of the rest of the government.
Mr. Allard said the changes would "reinforce the authority of state legislatures to determine benefits issues related to civil unions or domestic partnerships".
The agreement would reinforce the authority of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which was created in 1978 to issue special warrants for spying but was sidestepped by the administration.
Violence, even directed at targets such as schools, also serves to reinforce disintegrating authority over communities in the enclaves where the militants are based.
Amr Moussa, for example, has no natural power base and would therefore probably seek to reinforce the authority of the presidency – against the trend of revolutionary demands.
China has used its economic power — enhanced by its entry to the W.T.O. in 2001 — to reinforce the authority of a state still controlled by the Communist Party.
He moved quickly to reinforce civilian authority over the military, embarrassing them by mocking recent rumors of a planned coup d'etat.
John Rick, an archaeologist with Stanford Humanities and Sciences, has spent 25 years studying the tunnels and underground passages where priests once used light, sound and psychotropic drugs to reinforce the authority of Chavín's rulers.
