Sentence examples for at authority from inspiring English sources

They all cock a snook at authority.

I'm no good at authority, even my own.

Wolfgang chafes at authority and sometimes throws things the way a peevish boy his age might.

Vote Leave HQ pre-23 June was brimful of Charlies, all inveterate tilters at authority.

The Independent's James Lawton was not impressed with this "feeble stab at authority".

People with little to lose lashed out at authority and took what they wanted.

From the start, he envisioned slam poetry as a subversive, thumb-your-nose-at-authority movement, and he wants to ensure it stays true to those origins.

Cars were set alight and 18 people injured as crowds hurled stones at authorities.

They shot back at authorities and claimed an additional victim (Sean Collier, an MIT police officer) while running from the police.

Brennan has a penchant for thumbing his nose at authorities.

Ultimately, the problem with Curtis's weltanschaaung--and with his shaking a tightly clenched fist at authority--is that while he thinks he's rising to a desperate need for profundity, he comes across as sophomorically superficial.