Sentence examples for accepted authority from inspiring English sources

As a result, dates on a Muslim calendar can be moved by a day or so, depending on the first actual sighting of the moon by an accepted authority.

Erskine May, the accepted authority on parliamentary procedure, says that it is "the usual but not invariable practice" for prorogation (the end of Parliament's sittings) and dissolution to occur on the same day.

While Oldman is an accepted authority as an authenticator of all forms of antiquity, he is also working a fiddle: he mislabels masterpieces, then has a friend buy them at a fraction of their real value and pass them back to him.

Cruttwell was an accepted authority on the political and military history of the Rhineland.

After a theatrical display of refusal before the Senate, Augustus finally accepted authority over Rome's grain supply "by virtue of his proconsular imperium", and ended the crisis almost immediately.

This would remove the medico-legal risk of hospital staff using smartphone based clinical resources not referenced or reviewed by accepted authorities.

His father's death led Wall to refuse to accept authority or direction from adult men.

I've never been able to accept authority, I just hate being told what to do.

Parents accept authority figures besides themselves every time they bring in a sitter or send a child to daycare.

"He was very turbulent as a child, and as a teen-ager, and had trouble accepting authority and regulations".

Berkman was a difficult man, kind to those close to him but constitutionally incapable of accepting authority, and lost job after job.