Sentence examples for center of authority from inspiring English sources

Since corporate power has become so diffuse, it's not easy to locate a center of authority.

By the early 1790's, the "young court" at Gatchina had become Paul's own center of authority.

There was no center of authority, and a peace plan Mr. Yar'Adua had enacted for the violence-plagued oil-producing south seemed in danger of falling apart.

The restricted political agendas of each center of authority also require defense (Dahl 1983; Braybrooke 1983).

Beijing is at once "the center of authority and a hotbed of creative thinking" as Evan Osnos writes in "City of Dreams".

This is the most basic requirement under most Grand Lodge (the center of authority for Freemason groups) jurisdictions.

The Kremlin subsumed other centers of authority, including the Orthodox Church, under its control.

Stipulated: The protection of our capital, its monuments and centers of authority, is a vital national interest.

While the old regime concentrated power in Jakarta and suppressed competing centers of authority, newly democratic Indonesia has allowed far more regional autonomy and greater deference to traditional systems of law.

"If we can re-empower the traditional local centers of authority, the tribal shuras and elders and things like that and put an overlay of human rights on that, isn't that a step in the right direction?

All the same, with many reform candidates remaining among the thousands of Iranians competing for the 290 parliamentary seats, many believe that the balloting on Feb. 18 could still shift the balance of power against the hard-liners who control decisive centers of authority in the army, the police and the judiciary.