Sentence examples for brittle authority from inspiring English sources

Black-robed Edward Watson is a hieratic figure, exerting a tense, brittle authority.

The day is nearing, they reckon, when Israelis wake to find that the brittle Palestinian Authority has collapsed and that they are living in a binational state in which Palestinians are demanding full civil rights in all the territories controlled by Israel, on either side of the 1967 line.

He returned to Saudi Arabia in 1994, and almost immediately his relationship with the authorities became brittle.

He also said that the president, who is himself a former Islamic rebel, was looking for a scapegoat as he tried to reassert his authority over the brittle transitional government and a disillusioned nation.

However, the system remains quite brittle due to its liberaldelegation of signing authority: a single compromised certification authority undermines trustglobally.

However, the systemremains quite brittle due to its liberal delegation of signing authority: asingle compromised certification authority undermines trust globally.

Unless one believes that Chinese are naturally obedient to authority, this makes the Chinese system brittle.

The techniques they use to establish and maintain power make them very, very strong when they are in charge — Mr. Goldstone said that sultans have more personal authority than medieval monarchs did — but they also make their regimes extremely brittle.

At the time, the governors said that preventive measures, like the clearing of brittle underbrush, had to be undertaken more quickly and that the federal government had to cede more firefighting authority to state and local agencies.

Quasicrystals are exceptionally brittle.

Enforced stability is brittle.