Over the past two decades several vaccine controversies have emerged in various countries, including France, inducing worries about severe adverse effects and eroding confidence in health authorities, experts, and science (Larson et al., 2011).
Oliphant v. Suquamish was the final blow after 130 years of congressional acts aimed at eroding tribal authority: In the late 1800s, the federal government gave itself authority with the Major Crimes Act to prosecute Indians who commit felonies — rape, murder, larceny, for instance — on tribal lands, an ability the federal government does not possess with respect to states.
While the settlements continue eroding the authority's territory, the documents notes, economic stagnation and low tax revenue has left the authority unable to pay its employees.
One threat is Washington politics, eroding American authority in the world.
Mr Giggs's did not.The courts' inability to stem the tide of technological tittle-tattle risks eroding the authority of the whole legal system.
For many young men over the last decade, sectarian identity has come to override tribal loyalties, eroding the authority of men like Sheik Tameemi and enabling the rise of militant groups.
While social-media platforms may open up possibilities for user participation, they also carry the risk of promoting bad information and questionable judgments and of eroding the authority of institutional curators.
By the last quarter of the 19th century, European missionaries and African evangelists of almost every denomination were working among the peoples of Southern Africa, eroding chiefly authority and inculcating the new values and practices of the colonial world but also bringing new modes of resistance and educating many Christian Africans who later became outspoken critics of colonialism.
Education policies that let students sue teachers erode classroom authority.
