Sentence examples for as authority from inspiring English sources

"People laughed as authority hated us.

She could quote Robertson as authority for scrapping it altogether.

Success is most apparent when a movement manages to have its power legitimized as authority.

Mr. Sullivan cited as authority an S.E.C. accounting bulletin, No. 101.

Yet at ground zero, he projected comfort as well as authority, tenderness as well as steeliness.

The women demanded to be respected as authority figures in an effort to stop the radicalisation of their children.

Paul Cultrera seems most upset that Father Birmingham usurped his real father's place as authority figure and role model.

Naturalism's purpose, Yŏm asserted, was to expose the sordid aspects of reality, especially the sorrow and disillusionment occurring as authority figures are debased and one's idols are shattered.

Bourget's novels challenged what he called "brutal positivism" and asserted such traditional values as authority, the family, and the established order.

Nichols's hypothesis is that people regard a rule-violation as authority-independently wrong when the rule in question is affect-backed, that is, when it prohibits actions that we independently have a negative emotional reaction towards (Nichols 2004: 62).

I do not recognize that as authority to refuse to answer this question.