They didn't want to challenge the authority figure.
Wildcats eschew this process and challenge the authority of the national union and its general secretary or president.
Like other movements that seek to challenge the authority of psychiatry's diagnostic categories, the Hearing Voices Movement is controversial.
He refused and set up a rival gang to challenge the authority of the local loyalist leaders.
Mere local councillors were in no position to challenge the authority of the Department of Trade and Industry, which oversees Britain's negotiating strategy.
It is feared that an elected upper house will be much more likely to challenge the authority of the Commons than unelected peers have been.
In Pakistan, American officials believe a younger generation of operatives is emerging to challenge the authority of the group's old guard, including Mr. Zawahri.
Random explosions have only a limited ability to challenge the authority of the state, partly because so many leaders, Sunnis and other citizens have disavowed such attacks.
Mr. Sadr's determination to challenge the authority of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's interim government might have made an eventual military showdown inevitable.
It is hardly advisable, Mr. Calkins said, for a company to challenge the authority of an incoming administration, whether on social media or in a formal ad campaign.
Hundreds of Pakistanis have died this year in a long and brutal campaign by a revitalised militant movement desperate to challenge the authority of the government in Islamabad.
