Sentence examples for acting under the aegis of from inspiring English sources
My conclusion back then rested on the simple consideration that since I was a librarian and was acting under the aegis of a university, I had no problem.
No war declaration was necessary, the administration claimed, because the U.S. was acting under the "aegis" of a unanimous United Nations Security Council resolution ― a 9-0 vote because the Soviets were, at the time, boycotting that body.
Thus, we're left with a classic confrontation between protagonists, each of whom have noble motives and each of whom are acting under the aegis of a legal officer or court.
Why, asks the Pacific Legal Foundation, a non-profit, should private parties acting under the government's aegis be allowed to get away with the same thing?
Patricia Racette, a soprano renowned for her vocal radiance and skilled acting, returns to Washington National Opera this Saturday as the company launches its first season under the aegis of the Kennedy Center.
Two years later it became a land-grant institution under the aegis of the Federal Act of 1890, known as the Second Morrill Act.
Called The Years of Living Dangerously, the series was initiated by veterans of 60 Minutes, is presented under the aegis of big-name producers (James Cameron of Avatar, Arnold Schwarzenegger), and stars celebrities acting as roaming interviewers.
Tissue sampling was performed under the aegis of the UK Scientific Procedures (Animals) Act, 1986.
While they were undoubtedly acting with good intentions, she thought, the crowds of scientists who were now encamped in Valdez — some working under the aegis of NOAA and some under contract to Exxon — seemed to be participating in a kind of "feeding frenzy" of experiments and studies, many of questionable value, as if simply keeping busy were an end in itself.
This was a period when, under the aegis of a decaying right-wing government, the French police and secret services were both notoriously acting beyond the law.
