Sentence examples for illegitimate authority from inspiring English sources

For him there was no contradiction between poetry, political philosophy, and active confrontation with illegitimate authority.

In Oaxaca, illegitimate authority and the absence of political channels for dealing with grievance are radicalising protest.

As his political and moral beliefs strengthened, he said, he grew passionate about using his talent to challenge what he considered illegitimate authority.

But political obligations arise even from illegitimate authority.

The United States is still maintaining critical personnel in Caracas – citing that they will not recognize the demands of an illegitimate authority.

Anti-authoritarians question all authority and challenge and resist illegitimate authority.

It says the separatist uprising that followed in east Ukraine was provoked by fears over a threat to Russian-speakers from the new "illegitimate" authorities in Kiev.

Without regard for political correctness, both Paine and Ochs confronted all illegitimate authorities and hypocrisy.

The difference between legitimate and illegitimate political authority on this account is that the actions of the illegitimate political authority are not morally justified while the coercive actions of the legitimate authority are justified.

By any measure, Iraq, with its porous borders, weak and illegitimate central authority, nascent civil war and flourishing private militias, comes far closer to matching the archetype of a failed state today than it did a year ago.

With the national government just beginning to enforce the Supreme Court's desegregation edicts across the South, politicians in South Carolina wanted to symbolize their intention to resist the imposition of what they saw as illegitimate federal authority.