Sentence examples for lost its authority from inspiring English sources

Mr. Mugabe's governing party kept its majority, but for the first time in more than a decade, it lost its authority to change the Constitution unilaterally.

Scrum lost its authority after he was replaced by Dylan Hartley 15 minutes into the second half.

With no collective bargaining agreement in place, the league has lost its authority to enforce its drug and personal-conduct policies.

The National Security Agency lost its authority to grab the phone records of millions of Americans following this week's change in legislation enacted after 9/11.

Dr. LeRoy Walters, a bioethics professor at Georgetown University who testified today, offered one explanation: In 1996, the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, the institutes' panel that oversees gene therapy, lost its authority to approve all research protocols.

They also suggested that the council had lost its authority to decide the project because they did not act within a timely manner as dictated by city code.

How arrogant does an authority need to become before it loses its authority?

How many times does an authority get to be wrong before it loses its authority?

How corrupt does an authority need to become before it loses its authority?

As a result, the one branch of government that society trusts to exercise its authority -- the courts -- loses its authority the more that it tries to assert itself.

Increasingly, it looks as though the notoriously authoritarian state is losing its authority.