Sentence examples for common authorities from inspiring English sources

The aim, agreed by European leaders at a summit last June, was to "break the vicious circle between banks and sovereigns" by entrusting financial supervision and crisis management to common authorities.

Sometimes deference to a common authority; sometimes fear of adversaries; sometimes common axioms that trump any differences; and sometimes a sentimental "family feeling" that makes people tolerant of eccentricity or even obnoxious behaviour.

A decentralized web would look much the same way: many points connected not by a common authority, but by a shared intention.

Starting with the family, each larger unit responsible for facilitating the flourishing of member units and securing common goods beyond their reach without a common authority.

In the words of the Athenian envoys at Melos, without any common authority that can enforce order, "the independent states survive [only] when they are powerful" (5.97).

When people mutually covenant each to the others to obey a common authority, they have established what Hobbes calls "sovereignty by institution".

In this situation where there is no common authority to resolve these many and serious disputes, we can easily imagine with Hobbes that the state of nature would become a "state of war", even worse, a war of "all against all".

And the Commons authorities won't tell me.

And what do the Commons authorities do in response?

The event was cancelled at short notice by Commons authorities because it was a commercial venture.

Told Commons authorities he would not fund website through parliamentary allowances.