Sentence examples for free of authority from inspiring English sources

While out on a cross-country run he encountered Finn, a boy living alone in a wooden shack, blissfully free of authority and the attentions of juvenile dorm mates.

Academies are free of local authority oversight and not bound by the national pay framework.

The kids took their televised lessons to thousands of playgrounds, where, free of the authority of coaches, they invented their own moves.

The 1988 Education Act brought in city technology colleges and grant-maintained schools, free of local authority control.

They seem to call for an omnipresent state that is at the same time free of any authority.

This caused deep hostility among the Pueblo peoples, who coordinated a successful regional revolt in 1680; they remained free of Spanish authority for 14 years.

Going off to university gives students the opportunity to move out of home and into halls – and the chance to make their own decisions free of parental authority.

Tensions are set to remain high tomorrow when MPs vote on the academies bill, which would allow schools to break free of local authority control.

Gove is thought to be the brains behind a Tory policy under which parents and charities will be able to set up their own schools free of local authority control.

It rejected an attempt by the education secretary to limit any information only to successful applicants, saying that the programme, which establishes state-funded schools free of local authority control, involved substantial public funds and significant changes to the way the education service in England was controlled, managed and delivered.

Now more than half of secondary schools are academies, funded directly by central government, free of local authority control and able to decide their own curriculum.