Sentence examples for imperial authorities from inspiring English sources

More importantly, Gospel morality brought missionaries into conflict with the imperial authorities.

Constantly hunted by imperial authorities, Hubmaier ultimately was captured and burned at the stake as a heretic at Vienna.

He dated the corruption of the church from when it was accepted by the Roman imperial authorities.

Because Christians were persecuted by the Roman imperial authorities for nearly 300 years, they were unable to build their own cult centres.

Confucian thought influenced imperial authorities to create an exam system where students were judged on merit rather than social standing and connections.

According to Ms Martínez, its Indian caciques were allowed to retain control of their people and fought tenacious legal battles to stop the imperial authorities from stripping them of their rights.

However, this did not signal the restoration of imperial authority.

There is a fine line between antiterrorism and imperial authority.

Common suspicion of the imperial authority modified, but did not obliterate, internal tension among the colonists.

In the 5th century, however, some of them helped the barbarian leaders against the imperial authority.

Government in the first generation was dominated by a loyalist elite supported by British imperial authority.