Sentence examples for insidious authority from inspiring English sources

Mr. Henze's own unpleasant encounters with insidious authority figures of the sort embodied by Dionysus began early.

She was made director of programme development and planning, responsible for the future strategy of the whole broadcasting station, but she still chafed against state authority and the insidious self-censorship it imposed: "In China I was working in the gap between two walls...one side was the Communist Party and the other side was my own soul.

Our policies are being guided by an insidious process in which administrative authority is taking over the judiciary.

This is a more insidious form of secrecy, in which authorities and bankers do not bother to ask for names, something long outlawed in offshore tax centres such as Jersey and Switzerland but which has persisted in America.

Skiing aside, Branch's story is a meticulous investigation into the hazards of group decision-making: the insidious role that peer pressure, deferral to (imagined) authority, and presumption of expertise can play in undermining intelligence and experience.

The particularly insidious element of the promissory-note schemes, the authorities say, is that the elderly are often defrauded by people with whom they have successfully done business in the past.

There is an insidious circularity here.Ms Fortin's standing as legal guardian with the authority to make decisions on her daughter's behalf was, in effect, conditional upon her agreement with the prescriptions of the doctors.

For the regulators are men too, and wield the very same evil and incompetence, only enshrined in an authority from which it can wreck amplified and far more insidious destruction.

NTM disease is generally insidious, sometimes difficult to diagnose, and is not reportable to health authorities.

There is, however, another, more insidious provision in the Constitution that has a less obvious but more deleterious impact on voting outcomes — its delegation of authority to the states to run and regulate elections.

Subtler, more insidious.