Sentence examples for authority in our from inspiring English sources

But he was also getting at the erosion of narrative authority in our civic discourse.

"He was long a moral authority in our country," President Thomas Klestil said Saturday.

We the people still need to decide (perhaps through our elected representatives) which groups we accept as having cognitive authority in our policy deliberations.

We see by the number of people that literature still has authority in our society because no one called these people -- they came themselves.

Indeed, the only way for books to retain their waning authority in our culture is to wire their texts into the universal library.

"The people who are now in the positions of authority in our province, they are exactly the same persons who were here before," Mr. Mohmand said.

"We believed that because our private lives were free we could obey the authorities in our public life," he said.

"We have seen a slow but steady and growing presence of the law enforcement authorities in our investigations," James E. Hall, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said in an interview.

"We will ensure that a strong relationship exists with federal authorities in our mutual desire to thwart terrorism," said Mr. Kelly, who was a United States Customs commissioner and a Treasury undersecretary in the Clinton administration.

On the other hand it is not altogether speculative that a contrary policy, of accelerated decision, might do equal or greater harm for the security of private rights, without attaining any of the benefits of tolerance and harmony for the functioning of the various authorities in our scheme.

According to Raz, the essential role of authorities in our practical reasoning is to mediate between the putative subjects of the authority and the right reasons which apply to them in the relevant circumstances.