Sentence examples for contest authority from inspiring English sources

While the M.T.A. didn't exactly discourage our little contest, authority officials made it plain that they didn't want to start seeing unauthorized T-shirts or posters.

They want to tell the full story of a nationwide movement that included immigrant workers, women factory staff, doctors, dancers and taxi drivers – who rose up to contest authority in all its forms.

Two heavily armed and armored Muslim men from Phoenix arrived to shoot up the contest, authorities say, but were blocked by the Garland police force.

This situation hampers social accountability, whereas collective efforts could result in a power balance and at the same time protect individuals who may be put at risk if they contest authorities on their own [ 45] and offer support to organize public hearings, campaigns or demonstrations related to social pressure and collective rewarding [ 38].

Thus Indians were at the center and not always on the losing end of a contest for authority that spanned the Atlantic world.

And in a country where business these days is power, he talks the speech of the merchant he has become, plying his trade in a contest for authority.

It is a pity, to be sure, that an awkward squad of European politicians wants to test and contest the authority of the new European Central Bank and the fiscal rules of the new single-money system but even here things are not as bad as they might be.

What Schmidt could not have known is that Palin usually surrounds herself with sycophants and is profoundly threatened by women who are smarter than her and who can in any way contest her authority or celebrity.

Significantly they are produced in such a way that directly contests the authority of conventional forms of textual communication and representation in the industry towards embodied, emplaced sensory and affective accounts of how safety is performed and why it matters.

A week after the contest, the authorities in Azerbaijan announced that 40 people had been arrested in connection with what it said was a plot to launch "terrorist" attacks.

Marshall called the move "highly imprudent and arrogant" of the judges: "They're contesting the authority of the General Assembly.. . .