Sentence examples for civil authority from inspiring English sources

Reformers were equally varied in their attitudes toward civil authority.

Low's appointment marked a return to civil authority.

In France, marriages must be performed by a civil authority.

Marriages there must be performed by a French civil authority.

Appearance in a temple or before a civil authority was not required.

The civil authority sided with Damasus, and Ursinus and his partisans were banished.

A senior Bush administration official said it was urgent to create a new civil authority.

And a civil authority must perform a wedding before any religious ceremony can take place.

The play stresses, as Mr. Le Moli put it, "the conflict between religious and civil authority".

In establishing the American system, they made clear that civil authority had supremacy over military authority.

He understood that it must be the civil authority that leads.