Sentence examples for claims authority from inspiring English sources
"The administration claims authority to sift through details of our private lives because the Patriot Act says that it can," Sensenbrenner writes.
When religion claims authority in the political sphere, it is unsurprising — and totally justifiable — that atheists and skeptics question the source of this authority.
In that spirit the Hong Kong mission claims authority over Orthodoxy in China and south-east Asia.The Russians reject this interpretation of Chalcedon, and they have established their own mission in Hong Kong.
Given the undisputed fact that law claims authority, the only way to avoid an infinite regress is to assume that the authority of the foundational document or constitution derives from a "basic norm" (Grundnorm in German), the substance of which is something like "the constitution is to be obeyed".
Plato's dialogue Crito is the origin of several enduring ideas in the philosophy of law, such as that the law by nature claims authority over its subjects and that the very relationship between law and its subjects somehow gives rise to an obligation of obedience.
Instead the City Attorney claims authority to issue fines under Section 63 of the Police Code – but that code section actually pertains to "Obstructions on City Streets and Sidewalks," and doesn't regulate parking at all.
Jahan Mahmood, who resigned from his government job over disagreements on counter-terrorism strategy, claims authorities are misrepresenting the severity of the threat facing the UK.
Patriarch Sako has warned that numbers of Christians in Iraq are plummeting, and claims authorities are handing out visas as part of a "strategy" to help them leave.
Holder's speech does not materially limit that claimed authority.
The European Union has now claimed authority over the country, and the United States has yielded.
Like church authorities claiming to speak for God, environmentalists claim authority by speaking for nature and translating what the Earth is "telling" us.
