Sentence examples for authority trumps from inspiring English sources

Moral authority trumps mortal authority.

For Luther, divine authority trumps any claim on behalf of reason or morality, whereas for Kant there can be nothing higher than the moral law.

The dynamics of peer authority trump ubiquity.

It is not clear what ― if any ― legal authority Trump is claiming to strike the Assad regime.

Hours after Compaoré's ouster, the army released a declaration in support of Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Zida's claim to authority, trumping an earlier declaration made by military chief General Honore Traore that he would fill the power vacuum in the West African nation.

Whether this guy is deciphering a spreadsheet of 183 noncanceled proper fractions or wild suspense in a helicopter high above the desert, he has a natural authority that trumps other sorts of success.

"I'll also preface the following thoughts by saying if you don't believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God and the source of authority that trumps all others, you're not likely to agree with the rest of this column".

If there was no clear agreement on what authorized Trump's attack, there was an even greater divergence of opinion on what comes next, or what the Trump's undefined authority might allow him to do in Syria, or perhaps North Korea or Ukraine.

Milton, like many of his contemporaries, moved toward Puritanism, attracted by its idea that the Bible was the ultimate authority and trumped all institutional hierarchies.

At auctions in Paris, for example, a museum has the authority to trump a buyer.

This is like the argument that recognizing the principle of federalism leads to "limitless state authority to trump federal interests".