Sentence examples for foundations of authority from inspiring English sources
People on the right side of the political spectrum are highly sensitive to the arrival of people from different cultures into their country because they see them as undermining their key moral foundations of authority, purity and loyalty to in-group culture.
During this time, Hamas and other militant organizations rose to power and shook the foundations of the authority that Fatah under Arafat had established in the Palestinian territories.
"That is the mystic foundation of their authority.
The foundation of charismatic authority is emotional, not rational: it rests on trust and faith, both of which can be blind and uncritical.
By reemphasizing the traditional Confucian and Shintō values and redefining the courses in shūshin, it was to place morality and education on a foundation of imperial authority.
When he intervened in the continuation of the legal process by pardoning Nixon he was playing with the foundations of his own authority as Pres.
If it seemed preposterous to argue that women were superior to men, and yet one could do so using unimpeachable authorities, then arguments for the superiority of men over women, constructed on the foundations of those same authorities, might seem less convincing.
This is the foundation of dominance.
But the foundations of the Kremlin's authority would be shaken and partly eroded, and they would have to be repaired, the way Putin did when he first entered the Kremlin in 2000 after the chaos of democratization in the 1990s.
Innocenti resisted the temptation to calculate an overall score, because (see UNICEF 2007, page 39): In part this is to maintain opacity and avoid leaning too hard on limited data; composite indicators...need to be as transparent as possible both to keep the process open to debate and to avoid elevating the data to heights of authority that their foundations cannot sustain.
