Sentence examples for contesting the authority from inspiring English sources

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

In this way, the telling of personal stories emerges in this group as a form of protest and play; a way of amusing each other and contesting the authority of the professionals in the room: Ryan: When you slept with a girl too many times, boy it's dead.

Much of the focus was on Deutsche, run by Briton John Cryan, which had been contesting the authorities' original $14bn fine.

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.

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.

The proposal would have to go through the F.D.A. regulatory maze, and it could be several years before such a restriction took effect, especially if the major tobacco companies contest the agency's authority to do so.

And Jews were always religiously innovative, contesting the centralized authority of priesthood and orthodoxy.

After the term ends in 2015, post-IfF plans are more varied: the possibility of contesting the district authority is "a debate yet to be completed", and at least one of the councillors is planning to run for parliament.

The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority is contesting the local authority's claim, and it has already won the backing of one judge who ruled that a foetus can't have personhood, and therefore can't have a crime committed against it.

The Bush administration's stalling strategy appears to be very simple: Delay disclosing the requested information by contesting the accounting office's authority.

Ms Duka is contesting the SEC's authority, demanding to defend herself in a federal court instead.