Sentence examples for hereditary authority from inspiring English sources

Hillary v Jeb may offend against equal opportunity, but not the laws of statistics.How, people wonder, can this happen in a country that went to war to rid itself of a king's hereditary authority?

In the Polish government every nobleman, by means of his fiefs, has a distinct hereditary authority over his vassals, and the whole body has no authority but what it receives from the concurrence of its parts.

Sports are part of a broader plan to instill discipline and teamwork in a rural community governed simultaneously by a hereditary tribal authority and a liberal democratic nation, South Africa.

What of hereditary offices, authorities, and jurisdictions?

Hereditary chiefs had authority over all inhabitants of their clan areas, regardless of kinship.

Supreme Court decisions have recognized the authority of Hereditary Chiefs and indigenous title over unceded territories, including the most recent precedent-setting victory by the neighbouring Tsilhqot'in Nation.

Under international and Canadian law, including the Supreme Court of Canada's Delgamuukw ruling, this unceded status and the authority of hereditary chiefs has been recognized.

Canadian Supreme Court decisions have recognized the authority of Hereditary Chiefs and indigenous title over unceded territories, including the most recent precedent-setting victory by the neighboring Tsilhqot'in Nation.

Blair has no taste for electoral reform, but bill after bill risks being lost as these appointees assume ever more authority now the hereditaries are gone.

There is a wide diversity of fishery management provisions between areas, but most involve traditional authorities, often a hereditary chief, who make management decisions after considering the views of their resident stakeholders.

Affinity with Henry V was no recommendation to them, and hereditary succession seemed to lower the authority they vested in the government of the Reich.