Conroy was a figure with the institutional authority to fix problems for Shorten.
Mr. Zorn distrusts institutional authority and has mastered the language of the outsider-scourge.
Both feature little girls of unusual resourcefulness and determination, pitted against a demented institutional authority figure.
A hitherto compliant Congress must reclaim the institutional authority conferred upon it by the Constitution.
Though the Speaker's office carries imposing institutional authority, Mr. O'Neill added personal strength.
"The war against institutional authority is over," General Joao de Matos said.
But, of course, it was the Supreme Court that had the institutional authority to make the decision it did.
It's a viewpoint with a lot of currency in an age of near-total cynicism toward institutional authority.
The fact that institutional authority deserves it doesn't excuse the widespread indulgence of paranoid fantasy that these two questions reveal.
Americans are drifting out of the grip of institutionalized religion, just as they are drifting from institutional authority in general.
Because of the visual evidence, the institutional authority of the police was questioned, and then successfully challenged.
