Sentence examples for challenged their authority from inspiring English sources

trial, nobody has challenged their authority.

I'd never caused any problems up to then, never challenged their authority.

His defection posed a terrible threat to the radical Islamists, because he directly challenged their authority.

She said they could have killed me, because that's what they did to black boys who challenged their authority.

Mr. Shreshta said that the police battered the official vehicle of his brother, Health Minister Mathura Shrestha, after he challenged their authority to disperse crowds with staves.

He has not only challenged their authority; he is challenging the prestige of Army service, and is threatening to debase the values with which they claim authority.

He doesn't challenge their authority to do so".

Landowners throw the Indians out to stop them challenging their authority".

After the killings, the Maoists scolded the survivors for challenging their authority by moving through an area under guerrilla control.

"The male-dominated hierarchy, they come from a place where you don't challenge their authority," he said.

Each of them presides over a heavily centralized, hierarchical power realm; both are intolerant to those challenging their authority.