Sentence examples for authorities not even from inspiring English sources

I have never claimed money from the public authorities, not even telephone charges.

No one wants it to exist, not Help Refugees, not the British or French authorities, not even the people that live there.

No single authority, not even the military, has been able to impose its will.

In the model of the Berrigans, it was shown to them that there is no external authority, not even the moral authority of the church, which should not be questioned.

I am not thinking of child protective services or of schools or of any civic authority, not even the police; rather, I am thinking of the bonds among people, the presence of the other in ourselves, and the responsiveness around which every community and culture is built, which reveals itself in the commandment we see in the faces of others: do not kill.

Unlike the conciliar definition arrived at in Florence, Pastor aeternus specified this to include the pope's judicial supremacy, insisting that there is "no higher authority," not even an ecumenical council, to which appeal can be made from a papal judgment.

2 30 P.M. (HBO2) SEPARATE LIES (2005) In this directorial debut from Julian Fellowes ("Downton Abbey"), who adapted the screenplay from Nigel Balchin's novel "A Way Through the Wood," Tom Wilkinson portrays James Manning, a London lawyer who spares no one his imperious authority, not even his wife, Anne (Emily Watson, above with Mr. Wilkinson).

Authorities could not even say whether Nicholas was dead.

Local authorities are not even obliged to provide emergency housing.

The authorities did not even argue that the Scott sisters had committed the robbery.

Authorities did not even bother to charge them with legitimate crimes.