Sentence examples similar to forfeited authority from inspiring English sources

Governments are obsessively conditioned by "risk premiums", the valuations of the agencies – which have forfeited any authority to which they pretend by their failure to exercise it – and are buried in a fight to survive day-to-day that does not allow them to address the root causes of the situation.

Begin with falsified premises and you forfeit your authority.

And district and provincial governors might be chosen locally, though Kabul would be hard pressed to forfeit its authority to appoint provincial leadership.

Western science, rather weirdly, has forfeited the moral authority enjoyed by earlier and less informed scientists, the confidence that their work revealed a beautifully consistent and meaningful universe.

Otherwise, he says, they might have forfeited whatever moral authority they enjoyed over their Communist foes.

I forfeited the moral authority on that one a while back.

Our country seems to have forfeited its moral authority, and that makes our hearts sore.

The reality denial is particularly pervasive among Republicans, who forfeited any moral authority they claimed on debt when they rammed through that huge tax bill.

It forfeited much of its authority and reputation last year, when a previous team of commissioners resigned amid allegations of nepotism and petty corruption.

Luther did not concede this authority because he believed that for many centuries, the ecclesiastical hierarchy had defected from true Christian doctrine and so had forfeited any claim to authority.

Thirdly, editors who engage in dubious behaviour thereby risk forfeiting their authority to police misconduct among authors.