Environmentalism continues to rely heavily on its narrow repertoire of fear narratives, generally drawing authority from often-selective representations of scientific research.
He read from a teleprompter a series of promotional spots that he personalizes for various local stations—"Back to you, Wayne and Mary Ellen"—before responding to a question from the local anchors, who draw authority from the "voice of God".
Used as part of a ritual, each book also represents and draws authority from all the other books that have been used similarly, each one a symbol of good faith.
He came about as close to accurately summarising the problem as any politician when he said: "Over the past 15 years or so, a sub-culture of often suicidal violence has developed amongst a tiny minority of, mainly young, men, falsely drawing authority from Islamic beliefs and often nurtured in a prison system in urgent need of resources and reform".
Whitmarsh makes the illuminating observation that modern, post-Enlightenment atheism has a particular social function: it draws authority away from the clergy, towards the secular "priests" of science.
Holmes had booby-trapped his apartment near the theater with explosives, which police said he intended as a diversion to draw authorities away from the movie house while he was carrying out his assault.
A separate photo taken on July 16 showed the booby-trapped explosives Holmes is accused of rigging up inside his apartment, which according to police he had intended as a diversion to draw authorities away from the theater on the night of the assault.
Then, in November 1918, Britain and France declared their intention of establishing in Syria and Iraq "national governments drawing their authority from the initiative and free choice of the native populations".
Compromise for the sake of a common agenda is rare.This anarchic system just about works because at its centre sits a supreme leader (always a high cleric) who draws his authority from the revolution.
The claim to global Islamic leadership by the self-styled caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi threatens to undermine the TTP, which draws considerable authority from the fact that its symbolic figurehead is Mullah Omar, the one-eyed village preacher who ruled the original Taliban "emirate" in Afghanistan prior to the US-led invasion of 2001.
