Sentence examples for distant authority from inspiring English sources

She was no distant authority figure.

But they can also absolve communities of responsibility by making commemoration the duty of some distant authority.

This also meant that they had gained autonomy from the more distant authority of the Byzantine emperor, with whom they were also often in religious disagreement.

The taxes he collected were resented because they were levied by an unaccountable, distant authority who seemed to care little for those it was taxing.

Adelson portrayed himself as a distant authority and strategic guide for the company who was "not hiring and firing the housekeeping department" when it came to Alves.

"A heaven on earth in which harmonious existence was achieved without coercion on the impositions of distant authority, each individual's enlightened recognition of their mutual respect and dependency," according to Alex Butterworth.

Much of the frustration among the UPC members seems to be inspired by a distant authority making a decision about a conflict it couldn't, in their view, possibly comprehend.

[Our films] propagate many aspects which are non-existent in their culture: family values, relationships, parents and children, brothers, sisters …" It's strong stuff, to declare family values non-existent in the west, but delivered with a tone of distant authority that renders it a casual statement of fact.

Were not this great country already divided into states, that division must be made, that each might do for itself what concerns itself directly, and what it can so much better do than a distant authority.

One of Gingrich's childhood friends describes his mother as "very sweet and a little bit scatterbrained" and his stepfather as "scary," a distant authority figure.

For centuries the border, demarcated by the Rio Grande, was entirely porous, and its very length meant that much of Texas felt joined to Mexico a cultural affinity evidenced in the fact that the margarita and the fajita were both invented in Texas.Only recently, at the behest of distant authorities in Washington, DC, has this sense of propinquity seemed to weaken.