The phrase "authority challenging" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is questioning or opposing established authority or power structures.
Example: "The protest was a clear example of authority challenging the status quo, as citizens demanded accountability from their leaders."
Alternatives: "power contesting" or "authority defying".
But during most of her testimony, Mrs. Clinton sought to project an image of composure and authority, challenging the committee in her opening statement to "reach for statesmanship" in its long-running inquiry.
This is just like questioning authority, challenging and doubting should be.
Medical authority is conceived differently in this region such that Arab patients tend to automatically defer to the doctor's authority, challenging the prevailing patient-centered health models promoted in Western societies.
Courage to challenge authority Challenging authority is particularly stressful for those workforces deeply embedded in submissive cultures.
Attention to business ethics in United States universities emerged concurrently with the counter-culture (and authority challenging) movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Hollande and Valls, their authority challenged, evidently felt they had to act.
"No, you're wrong". The imam didn't appreciate having his authority challenged.
Thus decreed China's imperial rulers during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) when they found their authority challenged by charismatic preachers and mystics.
With republican institutions in Tehran weakened and his religious authority challenged in Qum, the future of the Islamic Republic and the fate of velayat-e-faqih remain uncertain.
This is to do with a number of factors: First, those leaders have, for the most part, ruled over several decades without seeing their authority challenged.
Mr Blair was speaking on a flight to Spain at the end of a momentous week in which he has had his political authority challenged as never before.
