Sentence examples for civic authority from inspiring English sources
In David Storey's home town of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, the civic authority has installed plaques in honour of local writers and artists.
The show's dance-driven teenage heroine, Tracy Turnblad, blithely disobeys her mother, consorts with a dubious crowd, defies civic authority and even lands in jail — only to be rewarded for her sins with a happy ending.
Locke's separation of church and state stood at the beginning of a debate about the limits of religious dissent from civic authority in the name of not unduly hampering an individual's or a group's spiritual practices.
Whatever their location, the liberties formed an equivocal territory that was at once internal and external to the city, neither contained by civic authority nor fully removed from it.
I am not thinking of child protective services or of schools or of any civic authority, not even the police; rather, I am thinking of the bonds among people, the presence of the other in ourselves, and the responsiveness around which every community and culture is built, which reveals itself in the commandment we see in the faces of others: do not kill.
Consider that the release of "Watchman" coincided with furor over the Confederate flag: at the same time that we are acknowledging the flag's evocation of racism, we're discovering that Atticus Finch — a beloved moral and civic authority — is a bigoted old man.
The mayor, like many of the civic authorities, had run away.
One letter to civic authorities chided, "Where the leaders have no vision, the people perish".
He said the civic authorities have yet to determine what caused the 35-year-old building to collapse.
Sandberg was fortunate that he operated in a liberal postwar atmosphere where his wilder enthusiasms were tolerated by civic authorities.
This factor, together with the proliferation of gambling card games, resulted in frequent denunciations of card playing by church authorities and prohibitions of specific games by civic authorities.
