Sentence examples for command of authority from inspiring English sources

This is a state of affairs where there is no public order, ineffective command of authority and loyalty and groups of all sorts and factions attempt to resist those who might try to integrate the community to establish effective order.

JE: That's a whole different [story], to actually have some command of authority, and I don't have any of that.

The basic idea is that it is incompatible for a subject to comply with the commands of an authority merely because it is the command of the authority and for the subject to be acting morally autonomously.

Alawites were placed at the commanding heights of authority, and the remainder of the diverse population was politically subjugated.

Katz notes that especially for women leaders, it's smart to take the seat at the head of the table to command a position of authority.

He claims that the moral duty to obey the commands of legitimate authority arises only if additional conditions are met.

First, moral norms have to be distinguished from mere social conventions in that they are somehow regarded to be universally valid, independent from the commands of social authority and a particular culture.

Because Kate seems to possess secret, oracular knowledge (it's rumored she easily cured herself of drug addiction), she commands a mystique of authority.

Why doesn't the Democratic party look at poor, wimpy Harry Reid and realize that he doesn't have an image or personality that commands any kind of authority and needs to go away.

While he declined to address in depth the subjects of oil and territory, Mr. Bremer said he expected the Kurdish militias, some of whom have been fighting for decades, to disarm or be integrated into an army under the command of the central authority in Baghdad.

In fact, the American abuses appear more a product of poor training, a breakdown of command authority and astoundingly bad judgment than any premeditated plan.