Sentence examples for just authorities from inspiring English sources

Mr. Brooks is the one, not Tea Partiers, with far more in common with those on the left who desire order dictated from top-down structures or, as he puts it, "just authorities".

To remedy our fallen condition, conservatives believe in civilization — in social structures, permanent institutions and just authorities, which embody the accumulated wisdom of the ages and structure individual longings.

That's because they say nothing about just authority.

Lincoln and Jefferson are presented as the embodiments of just authority.

Why can't today's memorial designers think straight about just authority?

Her crossed arms seemed to indicate not just authority but also a sort of discomfort with it.

To have good leaders you have to have good followers — able to recognize just authority, admire it, be grateful for it and emulate it.

David Brooks ("The Follower Problem," column, June 12) argues that contemporary memorials are flawed because they do not educate the public about "just authority".

That was not the case with Henry Buckley, whose Life and Death of the Spanish Republic (1940) exudes not just authority, empathy and real knowledge, but also humility.

Brooks argues that we don't defer enough, that we question "just authority" much too much, and aren't sufficiently "grateful" for the leadership of élites.

With continued reform, an American prison system that shocked Dickens in 1842 for its cruelty could finally begin to meet international standards, helping to restore America as a country of just authority and moral leadership.