Sentence examples for authority authority from inspiring English sources

In the days before bumper stickers told us to question authority, authority was one of the engines that kept society moving along.

George Weidenfeld, like Prince Rupert Lowenstein, financial adviser to the Rolling Stones, is an experienced broker, dealing, on the one hand, with certain useful remnants of traditional authority (authority with the power to inhibit) and, on the other, with the custodians of contemporary power.

To put it another way: Information and knowledge should not come from authority; authority should come from information and knowledge.

And they claim authority, authority over Jewish religious practice, over holy sites, over what women wear and where we sit on buses.

The US constitution did not give local authorities authority to prevent the buildings on the grounds of aesthetics alone, and any such law in New York was considered likely to face judicial challenge.

This presumes that René Gonzalez must be monitored constantly by the United States authorities, authorities who know exactly where to find these individuals, in order to ensure that he does not violate his parole.

The judge said if the prosecution satisfied the trial jury that Mr Shayler had been a member of MI5 and disclosed information about the agency (which he does not deny) and that the disclosure was without "lawful authority" - authority the judge said Mr Shayler had not obtained - then the jury "must convict".

"Today, civilian authority is under military authority".

Moral authority trumps mortal authority.

"There are essentially just two kinds of authority: formal authority and moral authority," he added.

More Muscle for Authorities Presidential authority has also been expanded.