Sentence examples for authority of custom from inspiring English sources
Individuals cannot have such aims, much less such "rights," until the dominant authority of custom or hierarchical privilege has been swept away.
It is ironic that silly conservatives accuse leftists of being uninterested in the authority of custom, experience and tradition – all ciphers of past practices – when the doyen of the left was obsessed with the past.
Throughout the Essay, Locke bemoans the irrationality of the majority and their inability, because of the authority of custom, to change or forfeit long-held beliefs.
Creative artists, scientists, and inventors always have to battle the authority of custom or ignore the establishment in their particular domain (Pruyser 1987).
Hancock had earlier been heard refuting the authority of the customs officials, although two tidesmen who had stayed on the ship overnight gave a sworn statement that nothing had been unloaded.
The welfare of the general populace then usually is a circumstance, resultant of the interplay of custom, authority, and tribal wisdom.
40 min: After withstanding more battering from Bilbao, United break forward and Rooney launches a long cross towards Hernandez, but Iraizoz intercepts with all the mean authority of a vigilant customs officer.
May 22 (Reuters) - A divided federal appeals court gave New York wide authority to regulate the content of custom license plates, and reversed a lower court ruling ordering the state to let an adoption advocacy group put the words "Choose Life" on its own plates.
Liberalism is the culmination of developments in Western society that produced a sense of the importance of human individuality, a liberation of the individual from complete subservience to the group, and a relaxation of the tight hold of custom, law, and authority.
"Jim and I were out to destroy -- ridicule, if you will -- all sources of arbitrary authority and custom.
These causes are: belief in unworthy authority; long custom; uncritical popular opinion; concealment of academic ignorance in a display of rhetorical wisdom.
