Sentence examples for bowing to authority from inspiring English sources

Censorship and self-censorship act together in this society to ensure that independent thinking and creativity cannot exist without bowing to authority.

He is not a man who easily bows to authority.

"Science," he said, "should not bow to authority".

I always admired him for that, for his unwillingness to bow to authority, doubly so because it carried consequences.

Pamuk sees his elder brother Sevket (an economic historian) as his "Freudian father - giving me instruction on how to bow to authority.

But then, as now, authoritarian command of the nation requires not that the Chinese people "stand up" but that they bow to authority.

Either he must bow to authority and betray both his aesthetic and his moral principles or risk his life and the lives of his men by telling the more complicated truth.

Slim, tall and athletic, Davies quickly became the Welsh junior champion at 15, but his boisterous temperament and refusal to bow to authority quickly earned him a reputation as a troublemaker.

Yet it's odd how often it has been the little ways in which the state attempts to keep tabs on our behaviour - tracking devices on wheelie bins and the like - that have most alienated those who previously bowed to authority.

Why can't I make my own rules?" Nowhere can we see the influence of our years of training to bow to authority figures more starkly than in the job-search arena.

When I was a child, I thought as a child, and I bowed to authority such as yours.