Sentence examples for object of authority from inspiring English sources

And while she danced more sparingly than she has in previous tours, she still made herself an object of authority and desire.

Winthrop strongly believed that civil liberty was "the proper end and object of authority", meaning it was the duty of the government to be selfless for the people and promote justice instead of promoting the general welfare.

When the feudal world succeeded the Roman Empire, however, the enforcement of the sanctions of religion became one of the first objects of political authority.

Unless the viewer can see actual objects "that sense of authority and authenticity is not conveyed," Professor Gelernter said.

A student of Catholic schools, the artist was surrounded by shrouded women at an early age, amused and mystified by the habits that served as symbols of authority and objects of obscurity.

"Peter felt strongly that the ark shouldn't be transformed into a new object — it survived the fire and has a kind of authority," Hardy said.

In 1981, when Mr. Menendez was a school board official in Union City, he became an object of scorn by cooperating with federal authorities after discovering that William V. Musto, the mayor and his political mentor, had funneled education money to organized crime.

But they are keenly aware that, along with the target of their scrutiny, the source of their own authority is also an object of examination.

If the object is authority, writers ought to earn it.

Questions of authority necessarily arise.

Lines of authority were obscured.