Sentence examples for desired authority from inspiring English sources

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A megalomaniac who desired authority (and access to luxuries) at all costs, Göth agreed to the inflated production tables that Pemper drew up for him.

In the face of such uncertainties, America is entitled to ask its allies for their help and understanding, but not to demand it.If American persuasion and evidence can wring the desired authority out of the Security Council, so much the better.

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If the contract contains givebacks desired by the authority, the local president, Roger Toussaint, could blame the arbitration process.

Although the authorities desired quick results, and in some instances physical coercion occurred, they soon realized that literal enforcement of a one-child guideline for everyone would stir up a storm.

A mass of legislation and royal instructions issued in the seventeenth century indicates that the authorities desired to approximate to that ideal of conquest through love for which Fray Luís Cancer had, long ago, laid down his life on the sands of Florida.

At the same time, Octavian could not simply give up his authority without risking further civil wars among the Roman generals, and even if he desired no position of authority whatsoever, his position demanded that he look to the well-being of the city of Rome and the Roman provinces.

'Therefore, when we are presented with an attempt by the federal authority to control a problem that is not, by its very nature, one with which state regulatory commissions can be expected to deal, the conclusion is irresistible that Congress desired regulation by federal authority rather than nonregulation.' FPC v. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp., 365 U.S., at 28, 81 S.Ct., at 450.

The men then phoned the Bangor airport trying to get a flight to Boston but were told there was no flight that matched their desired departure time, the authorities said.

They do not think that virtue consists in subsuming their needs and desires to the authority of tradition.

Jesus preached a message of freedom, but the church has discovered that it is not freedom that humankind desires; it is authority.

An indicative planning approach was used at the time and as discussed earlier on it failed to yield the desired results by the city authorities.

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