Sentence examples for bogus authority from inspiring English sources

It all seems to have provoked Macdonald's lifelong hatred of bogus authority.

You figure that big, blustery Martle is only a bogus authority, inventing his choreography on the spur of the moment.

I think a lot of bogus authority and seeming responsibility had accrued (at least in my mind), and, unless I wanted to really dig in and try to be the Faulkner of Boerum Hill, it seemed better to restore my sense of the exile part of the "silence, exile, cunning" that James Joyce claimed was essential to a writer.

A bogus moral authority seems to accompany the accumulation of wealth -- a sense that one deserves it, while those without wealth deserve servitude and hopelessness.

After the auction, but before Mr Cai's declaration that his bid was bogus, Chinese authorities ordered strict checks on all Christie's exports and imports.

Their elder son is the 16-year-old Walt, played by Jesse Eisenberg - a callow young man who has mastered his father's bogus air of authority in talking about literature, and who calls Kafka's books "Kafkaesque".

More than 100 immigrants paid upwards of $300 to join the bogus unit, the authorities said, and $120 to renew their memberships each year.

The pirate's credulity regarding the US authorities' bogus ransom negotiations may make for a happy ending, but it's also the moment when America's superpower seems almost tragically all-consuming.

To announce on national media outlets he has approached National Missing and Exploited Children and they [Showbiz Promotions] have changed their minds and that 100% will be going to a non-profit, its bogus and the authorities need to take immediate action.

The only criminal charge against Mr. Alves is a minor felony: allegedly giving authorities a bogus post-prison address, in violation of the so-called Megan's Law, which requires released sex offenders to register.

In addition to tossing Mr. Khodorkovsky in jail on trumped-up charges, the Russian authorities also brought bogus tax claims against Yukos itself, shoving it into bankruptcy.