Sentence examples for dictates of authority from inspiring English sources

It is said that we deny responsibility for our actions when we attribute their cause to: vague impersonal forces ("I had to"); our condition, diagnosis, personal or psychological history; the actions of others; the dictates of authority; group pressure; institutional policy, rules, and regulations; gender roles, social roles, or age roles; or uncontrollable impulses.

It restricts architects to the dictates of external authority -- in this case, the forms and scale of neighboring buildings.

Avijit wanted "to build a society which will not be bound by the dictates of arbitrary authority, comfortable superstition, stifling tradition, or suffocating orthodoxy but would rather be based on reason, compassion, humanity, equality and science".

"Our aim is to build a society which will not be bound by the dictates of arbitrary authority, comfortable superstition, stifling tradition, or suffocating orthodoxy but would rather be based on reason, compassion, humanity, equality and science," Roy described the founding mission during a 2007 interview.

In the Analects (Lunyu《論語》), which contains the main teachings of Confucius, it said: "Guided by dictates of political authority, and regulated by punishment, people can get by without violating the law but have no sense of shame; guided by virtue, and regulated by li, people will have sense of shame and a standard of personal development" (Analects (Lunyu 《論語》2 3, in Cheng 2011b: 12).

For example, your comfort level will dictate the amount of authority you feel is appropriate for you to hold over your employees, the methods you deem appropriate for task delegation and the level of control you feel you should entrust your employees with.

If it is reasonable to obey conscience, then "the rules that Conscience lays down" are either reasonable in and of themselves or they are "the dictates of an arbitrary authority" (Sidgwick, III.13 §2).

As (perceived) voices of authority in society, scientists and journalists help shape public opinion, which ultimately dictates public and political will.

He is pre-emenintly the Tudor politician who embodies sticking to firm principles, upholding moral authority and obeying the dictates of conscience.

Questions of authority necessarily arise.

Lines of authority were obscured.