Sentence examples for collective authority from inspiring English sources
Speaking of the Swarmatron's sound, Brian said, "All these notes packed together gives them a collective authority.
Rivalries are balanced by the urgency of the clan's unity, where the collective authority of al-Khalifa overwhelms the power of a single individual, the king included.
The body is a kind of repressive socialist state where every cell is equal but each must respond precisely to collective authority or receive orders to self-destruct.
It offers heroes and villains, fosters the American ideal of the individual over any collective authority, and, above all, provides the hopeful illusion that we don't have to confront the hardest questions that doctors and patients grapple with every day.
Admission to such groups was voluntary (in contradistinction to the archaic national or familial religious organizations) and demanded the payment of dues, submission to collective authority, and the acceptance of strict codes of morality.
What's more, the very fact of the mental institution, embodied by the doctors' decisions (shown as misguided, even cruel) about patients' release, is presented as an unwarranted collective authority.
Although the HRS intended to implement the land-use rights through a contractual framework, the contracts, in particular, the contract's duration, have not been respected by village collective authorities, who have periodically approved reallocation of land among household villagers.
The victories boosted the presidential prospects of several likely Republican contenders, none more so than Walker, who became a hero to conservatives for taking on public sector unions, stripping them of nearly all of their collective bargaining authority.
The rulers are philosophers who take turns over their lifetime in exercising collective political authority.
