Sentence examples for confronting authority from inspiring English sources

Soucie said that Winslow, like many people who falsely confess, had "greater anxiety confronting authority than dealing with whatever punishment that authority imposes".

As generations of Chinese know well, the euphemistically termed process of laojiao, or "reëducation through labor," educates citizens in one rule and one rule only: the hefty fee for confronting authority.

Yet the British media are nobody's lapdogs, and reporters can be brazen in confronting authority and courting official disdain.

Then there is the fact that different people have widely disparate experiences confronting authority and interacting with the police, Grant-Thomas said.

Agile risk managers therefore need to be as courageous in confronting authority as they are poised in the face of new challenges.

In a blog post for Voices of Africa, Arboleta elaborates on his motivations for taking on the heavy task of confronting authority, including how the project lead to his arrest.

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

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

This is not the first time Denisov has confronted authority.

(A "Joan of Arc" bake-off: write a play that includes a woman who confronts authority, a philosophical defense of cross-dressing, and a match).

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.