The phrase "accepts authority" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone acknowledges or submits to the power or control of another person or organization.
Example: "In a well-functioning team, each member accepts authority and works collaboratively towards common goals."
Alternatives: "acknowledges authority" or "submits to authority."
This is not crime of the century – a few dabbles during Euro 2016 and a successful flutter on Barcelona to hammer Celtic – but is not the behaviour of someone who readily accepts authority.
That a top high school student may also be among the market's extreme and grotesque creations — i.e., an adolescent who accepts authority, willingly does absurd amounts of homework, is respectful of his or her college guidance counselor, listens to his or her parents and is a dedicated standardized-test-taker to boot — doesn't seem to occur to Golden.
Alex Beam (columnist, Boston Globe) criticized the Essjay affair as being part of what he characterizes as the problems of "crowdsourcing" and the "wisdom of crowds," stating also that the crowd accepts authority unquestioningly: "Who would you rather have write your encyclopedia entries?
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.
They need to fully understand why we approach treatment the way we do, because they search for knowledge and understanding rather than passively accepting authority.
There have been a couple of big, turning-point decisions that I've had to make where my inability to accept authority has worked out for me.
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.
