Sentence examples for a system of authority from inspiring English sources

The shift, Gladwell said, was from a system of authority ranking, or paternalism, to one of market pricing.

But in trying to impose a system of authority based on loyalty to himself, he created a lasting rift in Fatah between his "outside" people and younger local leaders.

The Chernobyl explosion, 30 years ago this month, arguably played a key role in the demise of the Soviet Union – if only because it crushed whatever credibility remained of a system of authority whose claims included the safe mastery of technology.

We are replacing a system of local authority oversight with one of hundreds or thousands of individual schools, which will inevitably in the end have to come together, either through commercial organisations or charities, without the democratic accountability of the local authority".

It says a system of local authorities co-operating in four regions was a "more effective way forward when compared to 22 authorities trying to resolve issues of delivering educational services, supporting and using resources in an effective way".

Thus, it was in the interest of conservatism to take the task of centralization in hand, bring it to a successful conclusion, and create a new system of authority compatible with the preservation of royal and aristocratic dominance.

A closed system of authority in which democracy is a dirty word, secrecy is a virtue and unaccountable individuals combine spiritual prestige and temporal power is a breeding ground for abuse and cover-up.

The underlying point was not to hurt Sanders but to defend a supposed expertise, which is to say a whole system of authority and power.

One section of the film examines the historical links between various companies and mid-20th-century fascism, which are used to support a broader claim that modern consumer capitalism is, at bottom, an oppressive system of authority.

The committee, headed by a layman, resigned in protest.What the Belgian and Irish stories suggest is the collapse of a centuries-old order in which the church functioned as a sort of "state within a state"—administering its own affairs, and often the affairs of its flock, by a system of law and authority that ran in parallel with, and could trump, the authority of the state.

This meant that the state could not be easily replaced by a more decentralized system of authority.