Sentence examples for authority prevented from inspiring English sources

A former parlementaire himself, Montesquieu argued that the aristocratic courts were "intermediary bodies" whose resistance to royal authority prevented abuses.

Television stations reported the cracks in the building the night before it collapsed, but no local authority prevented Mr. Rana from opening the building the next morning.

That statutory authority prevents this court from deciding federal constitutional claims that are raised for the first time before it in appeals from state court decisions.

The lack of a central authority prevents the protocol from progressing.

Everyone deserves the freedom to fill their bodies with as many vile, artificial, fatty substances as humanly possible, should they so desire without some pesky health authority preventing the influx of precious synthetic goodness.

"Only chance and the efficient control measures of the preventive safety authorities prevented a wider spread of infection," the committee's report said.

Hamas authorities prevented fans from installing a screen in Gaza's main square to show the broadcast live from Beirut.

Hebrew University Rector Barak Medina said the university would lobby on her behalf, though the authorities prevented university representatives from visiting her on Sunday.

Israeli authorities prevented the Jewish American academic Noam Chomsky from entering the West Bank on Sunday to give a lecture at a Palestinian university near Ramallah.

The sale by BSkyB -- 26 million shares -- came four years after the regulatory authorities prevented BSkyB from acquiring the team for $1 billion.

This was a time in Lawrence's life when he was hounded by the authorities, prevented by censorship from earning his living, and had a tumultuous private life.