Sentence examples for empty authority from inspiring English sources
"Now that I'm in charge, I know it's not just empty authority: the rules are there for a reason.
We have always before us the Enlightenment choice between empty authority and rational argument — between divine rules made by an authority we know for certain to be nonexistent and rational ethical argument we know in advance will be ongoing and inconclusive.
We have always before us the Enlightenment choice between empty authority and rational argument between divine rules made by an authority we know for certain to be nonexistent and rational ethical argument we know in advance will be ongoing and inconclusive.
But in a country where 300,000 homes lie empty, the authorities decided to make the Moores homeless and punish them for their perceived fecklessness.
As the police investigated Friday night, streets around the school were blocked off, and the school and gymnasium were empty, the authorities said.
Now with the measures announced in the housing bill, to pilot right to buy in housing association properties, a 1% rent cut for council and housing association tenants, and the forced sale of "high value" council housing when it becomes empty, local authorities and housing associations are feeling the pinch, as tenants are.
Dallas Judge Clay Jenkins has offered federal authorities empty buildings in a risky political move as he faces re-election in November.
Set up in Leeds in 2013, a team made up of solicitors, estate agents, roofers, decorators, social care workers and the local authority's empty homes department work on empty homes.
Mr. Shtayyeh, the Palestinian envoy, said he considered Israeli warnings about the collapse of the Palestinian Authority as "empty threats".
But they lost that bid because three-quarters of the places at the failing school were empty, and the local authority planned to roll a number of dicey primaries into a single big one.
Shelter said it had calculated that in order to reach the £4.5bn figure, each local authority with empty homes would need to sell off the top 30% of each property size by number of bedrooms.
