Sentence examples for acquires authority from inspiring English sources

A popular one acquires authority and a freedom to act.

They acquired authority, actually a canonical status, however, that caused them to be regarded with profound reverence and thus, in effect, as sacred.

But if you imagine a decentralized Church, in which local parishes and bishoprics have far more autonomy and there are many other ways of acquiring authority and serving, the priesthood recedes in importance.

By the end of the 3rd century the bishop of the provincial capital was acquiring authority over his colleagues: the metropolitan (from the 4th century on, often entitled archbishop) was chief consecrator of his episcopal colleagues.

There were more than a dozen men patrolling the field who looked like coaches, and not a few of them with the weathered skin and receded or whitened hair to suggest acquired authority.

Employers have in recent weeks used their newly acquired authority to fire to do just that, while the supposed Nordic-style worker protections Mr. Macron has promised have yet to materialize.

By surpassing expectations, Cameron has acquired authority, an essay-crisis PM who scored another 1st; but the road ahead is harder than the one he's yet taken, with very sharp reductions in public spending to come from who knows where.

Since I have grown poor, I have acquired authority; nobody threatens me; I rather threaten others.

But he also insisted that conquerors acquire authority over those they subject to their rule — "sovereignty by acquisition" — when they allow those subjects to go about their business.

Therefore, for the first time, the Plebeians seemed to have indirectly acquired authority over Patricians.

Prisoners often form their own unspoken hierarchies, acquiring authority by preying on new inmates to gain power.