Sentence examples for demanding authority from inspiring English sources

The Wilson Court declared: "By virtue of their character and the rules of law applicable to them, the books and papers are held subject to examination by the demanding authority, the custodian has no privilege to refuse production although their contents tend to criminate him.

We compared the issue to that presented by cases involving public papers, explaining that "where, by virtue of their character and the rules of law applicable to them, the books and papers are held subject to examination by the demanding authority, the custodian has no privilege to refuse production although their contents tend to criminate him". Id., at 382, 31 S.Ct., at 545.

An ailing 79-year-old Iranian opposition leader who has been under house arrest since February 2011 has embarked on a hunger strike, demanding authorities try him in public.

Relatives of a woman shot dead by a police officer in front of her three-year-old son are demanding authorities release the entire video footage of the incident.

Thousands of people have staged a protest in Isfahan, Iran's top tourist destination, demanding authorities bring to an end a spate of acid attacks on young women that has sparked horror and outrage.

Late Monday, activists blocked the entrance of a police precinct following the shooting and marched to an Interstate highway, demanding authorities release video of the shooting.

The hierarchy demands authority, without offering accountability.

Effective leaders, it says, do not demand authority, but are granted it, and they lead through influence, not power.

He demanded authority to blockade and bomb China and to unleash Chiang Kai-shek's troops from Formosa (now Taiwan) against the Chinese mainland.

Newspapers demanded authorities crack down "without gloves" on such "sedition" and "treasonable tirades".

Jibran Nasir, a lawyer and activist, led unprecedented protests outside Islamabad's notorious Red Mosque following the school massacre to demand authorities arrest Abdul Aziz, the mullah who attempted to introduce Taliban-style moral policing in the capital in 2007.