Sentence examples for arbitrary authority from inspiring English sources

It denounced European cruelty to colonial peoples, which it blamed on religious intolerance and arbitrary authority.

He emerged radicalised from the war with a distaste for arbitrary authority.

Has this something to do with discipline, with diet, with arbitrary authority?

Surrounded by arbitrary authority, she insists on talking sense ("There's plenty of room!" she says to the Mad Hatter).

"Jim and I were out to destroy -- ridicule, if you will -- all sources of arbitrary authority and custom.

Two centuries on, that democracy has proved remarkably enduring, stable and resilient; and citizens have not had to take up arms against arbitrary authority to preserve it.

"When it is," he concluded, "it will predictably rely on broad, arbitrary state authority exercised without public accountability".

Eventually, Iranians will have to choose between two dramatically different visions of their nation's future, one based on democracy and the rule of law, the other premised on arbitrary religious authority.

This, rather than the events of the day itself, is the subject of this intriguing little book by Christopher Prendergast, an historian at Cambridge University.The taking of the Bastille fortress, a symbol of arbitrary royal authority, was undoubtedly of revolutionary importance, in terms of weakening the monarchy and legitimising popular defiance.

"The Fourth Amendment was designed to stand between us and arbitrary governmental authority.

In fact it is in the diversity we witness, in the freedom some women have in the face of other women's neglect, that we see how arbitrary the authority and its sources can be.