The phrase "acceptance of authority" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing compliance, submission, or acknowledgment of power or control by an individual or group.
Example: "The acceptance of authority is crucial in maintaining order within any organization."
Alternatives: "acknowledgment of power" or "submission to authority".
But by 1945, Kennedy was clearly put off by the defeated Germans and their total acceptance of authority.
Gradually the term gathered derogatory connotations, implying a mindless acceptance of authority even when it is nonsensical or cruel.
David Brooks, in his latest celebration of traditional American values, describes a return to an acceptance of authority and an ethic of ambition and hard work.
The engineer mind-set, Gambetta and Hertog suggest, might be a mix of emotional conservatism and intellectual habits that prefers clear answers to ambiguous questions — "the combination of a sharp mind with a loyal acceptance of authority".
Finally, in 1990, with Rabbit at Rest, Updike plants his lovably mediocre hero in Reagan's America, a state of anaesthesia that provoked his contemporary and rival Gore Vidal to deplore Updike's "acceptance of authority in any form".
As is well known, Weber distinguishes among three main sources of legitimacy understood as both the acceptance of authority and of the need to obey its commands.
Now, there is little acceptance of that authority.
It is shifting away from traditional acceptance of established authority and putting more emphasis on law and rights.
A deep acceptance of divine authority — and that is what true religion demands — entails a renunciation of human rights if God so wills.
Seventh-day Adventists share many of the basic beliefs of Protestant Christianity, including acceptance of the authority of the Bible, recognition of the existence of human sin and the need for salvation, and belief in the atoning work of Christ.
It is unfortunate that Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York has come across in an authoritarian tone at a time when acceptance of church authority is a critical problem.
