We defer to all manner of authorities, no matter how unhinged, and we do not prosper as a result.
Lang has a manner of commanding authority: she is statuesque, discreetly swaggering, with a creamy, elastic mezzo-soprano.
The "liberty of conscience", so important to Enlightenment thinkers in general, and asserted against all manner of paternalistic authorities (including Protestant), descends from this Protestant assertion.
The crucial issue centred on the manner of understanding biblical authority.
Crescent-shaped wood carvings with a bearded human head on each tip were worn as pectorals; carvings of fish worn in the same manner served as emblems of authority.
"Widmerpool," the narrator realizes at last, sounding like a baffled, Cruz-hating Republican senator today, "once so derided by all of us, had in some mysterious manner become a person of authority". This is not exactly a flattering comparison.
Widmerpool takes charge of a drunken Stringham after a reunion dinner, guides him home and, despite resistance, puts him firmly to bed: "Widmerpool, once so derided by all of us, had in some mysterious manner become a person of authority.
Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, for instance, has advocated sanctions primarily as a manner of jolting the authorities into racial change without bloodshed.
The sophisms of everyday life and ordinary discourse are eight in number and two of them, the sophisms of authority and manner, should be noticed.
The report states that council members and staff must have known something about the manner of burial as the authority's sub-committees sometimes met on the site.
UNITED NATIONS — The route out of the financial crisis — at least in the view of Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, a ranking Sandinista and the fractious president of the United Nations General Assembly — should be lined with all manner of new global institutions, authorities and advisory boards.
