Sentence examples for authority powerful from inspiring English sources

In short: There is no real authority powerful enough to stop what they are doing, save for maybe the court of international public opinion.

MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin signed into law on Friday a measure that will impose heavy fines on people who organize or take part in unsanctioned demonstrations, giving the Russian authorities powerful leverage to clamp down on the large antigovernment street protests that began six months ago and seemed to be re-energized after Mr. Putin's inauguration last month.

"It's very, very important we push to make sure that UK is somewhere where the police and the authorities — powerful though the tools they have are — that they are always held accountable to us the people".

At 36, Mr. Monserrate, a policeman turned politician, has made a career of challenging the authority of powerful city institutions as an outsider on the inside.

During the medieval period (9th to 16th century) the Lake Chad region was both an important refuge and an area in which diverse populations were consolidated by the authority of powerful kingdoms.

Last week, the Lower Colorado River Authority, a powerful state organization that controls the water in the two lakes and much of the river, postponed a decision on whether to grant a contract to another major user.

Last week, he told a photographer who was perhaps excessively perfectionist to "just take the fucking picture!" This is the ultimate abuse of authority: someone powerful by virtue of birth abusing someone who holds their position by virtue of ability, knowing they can't respond.

But no authority, however powerful, can predict what it cannot trace.

Courage and love are essential because the authorities are powerful and oppressive.

The crumbling of the strike shows that employers and the authorities retain powerful options in the face of rising labor unrest.

Mr. Brodsky leads the committee that oversees state authorities, the powerful, quasi-public corporations that run many vital parts of the state's infrastructure.