Sentence examples for benign authority from inspiring English sources

"We're benign authority figures," Ms. Ruthman said.

Dohnányi presided over it all with benign authority.

In Dvorák's E minor trio, No 4, the 'Dumsky', and Mendelssohn's first in D minor, the new combination sound as lush and unified as ever, with Menahem's benign authority bringing the best out in his gifted young colleagues.

He knew as well as anyone that, should he assume this role, he could have a profound impact on a group of players that was in desperate need of a figure of benign authority.

The future cop and the old-time gangster are dominated by silver-haired mentors (Max Von Sydow and Mr. Newman) whose benign authority turns out to be evil and duplicitous.

While American subjects were overwhelmingly likely to hear negative and threatening voices, patients in Ghana more often reported hearing the voice of God or of a benign authority figure; Indian schizophrenics heard nagging relatives.

Chinese officials want to appear to be benign authorities who are in touch with the needs and wants of the grass roots, not overseers of police squads who detain harmless university students seeking better bathrooms.

Since the Seventies when Westminster's head, John Rae, was in his chatshow pomp, a political favourite and fount of advice to less-privileged academies, it has seemed natural for headteachers who would prefer, for perfectly understandable reasons, not to toil in the state sector, to be introduced as benign authorities on educating the masses.

Following the approach taken by Wright and Tedeschie (1975) and conducting our own factor analysis, we form three sub-scales: Political trust (trust of politicians and the media), Paternal_trust (trust of benign authorities like parents, experts, public-opinion poll respondents, etc)., Stranger_trust (trust of anonymous others such as strangers, the honor system, etc).

The writers' presumption was that a benign male authority could dictate the solution to women's existential dilemmas.

A crossing patrol with whom a child interacts every day becomes a benign, trusted authority figure in his or her life.