Sentence examples for confront authorities from inspiring English sources

Her willingness to openly confront authorities makes her stand out among Tibetans.

Moddi's reinvention of the tune provides welcome proof of music's continuing, if underemployed, power to confront authorities: he was refused permission to film its video in a church on his country's border with Russia.

The willingness of these young people to confront authorities in Washington and elsewhere is a far cry from the approach of most illegal immigrants, who are usually anxious to avoid calling attention to themselves.

Social identity theorists argue that groups may establish or develop a norm to confront authority or behave in extreme ways; when people's group identity is salient, they follow those norms more closely.

Adults will regularly tell young people about how lucky we are that the world has changed so much that we are able to do things like come out, hold protests, confront authority.

Judas Iscariot, for his 30 pieces of silver, may simply have believed he was arranging a meeting between Pontius Pilate and Christ - whose natural instinct was to confront authority.

The skill and the courage of police officers in the line of fire is matched by an underlying anti-authoritarian bravado, as in a signal moment when Tommy (who's already in trouble for his insubordination) speaks up to confront authority, suggesting the freedom and the cowboy-like characters that are essential to an effective bureaucracy.

Despite our disposition to confront authority and allies, however, we still hold unqualified respect for work that Mr. Medina and others have done.

Argentina's "piquetero" movement - made up of protesters known for blocking roads and confronting authorities - has promised to descend on the resort in force.

Marat Guelman, a Russian art world impresario who has confronted authorities but also played a pro-Kremlin role in previous election campaigns, said while smoking outside the movie theater Friday night that the film should be shown to all Russians younger than 30.

Khaled al-boardy, a board member of Egypt's Journalist Syndicate with a long history of confronting authorities, also described self-censorship.