Sentence examples for badge of authority from inspiring English sources

"Carry it as a badge of authority," he advised, "but never use it".

The dual roles of guardian and drill instructor are like two sides of the same badge of authority, and are not always compatible.

"But without the badge of authority of capital of culture, there is a danger that they will then retreat into their own silos and that their own pressures will distort what they do in terms of cultural delivery," Redmond warns.

At best, the scientists' role was to describe some of the science behind the content of the show, at worst they were simply used as a badge of authority to validate the pre-defined narrative.

Sexual abuse by any trusted adult is a shattering thing; sexual abuse by a priest or minister or other religious cleric upends a child's every assumption about who's safe and who's not; where moral leadership can be found; what it means for a person to wear a badge of authority or the vestments of holiness.

In peasant communities across the Andean highlands, Aymara Indian elders dressed up in ceremonial red ponchos and knitted caps, a rawhide whip knotted around one shoulder as a badge of authority, have been convening open-air meetings to urge support for a new constitution designed to give special rights and privileges to Bolivians of indigenous descent.

One result: nobody can easily identify the conventional badges of authority and class.

Biological age, years of study, and formal markers of achievement aren't badges of authority any more; they haven't been for a long time.

In the military, uniforms, stripes and decorations reveal one's military achievements and rank, but in corporate America, especially in the seemingly casual atmosphere of many IT companies, the badges of authority can be more ambiguous.

Even as it wags a finger at vigilantism and half-heartedly endorses due process, "Texas Rangers" is an orgy of revenge killing under the badge of legal authority on the wild Texas-Mexico border in 1875.

Each is assigned a badge of office.