Sentence examples for of absolute authority from inspiring English sources

In the neighborhood, he is the face of absolute authority.

Here, the conspicuous absence of visible security measures no guns or guards—signals the confidence of absolute authority.

It was not a completely happy night as from a position of absolute authority a couple of problems arose.

Here, the conspicuous absence of visible security measures — no guns or guards — signals the confidence of absolute authority.

A "hit and run" strategy toward empowerment creates a major misalignment between the CEO's empowerment rhetoric and the reality of the arbitrary use of absolute authority.

Our present cultural climate discourages empathy a stay-in-your-lane policing has been afoot for a while now—and demands the performance of absolute authority.

Both might be true; the elaborate excesses of the ballet seem at once a veneration of the absolute authority of royal power and immutable social order, but also so exaggerated that it is hard not to imagine that a touch of irony pervades the display.

Where once the revolutionary church had preached a message of human freedom in the face of the Roman oppressor, now, as Rome's official religion, it described human nature as inherently sinful, fallen, infirm, and in need of the absolute authority of the state's moral institution, the church.

According to Garcia Calderon, the legacy of colonialism in Latin America has often led to the rise of an absolute authority, which seeks to contain a nation's inner conflict.

"This is the meaning of the absolute authority," Mr. Kadivar said, referring to the ayatollah's position.

A second suggested he was an "unhappy soul" who had succumbed to the temptation "to impersonate the kind of punitive, absolute authority that renders grades to its helpless students as if they really were blessings and curses".