Sentence examples for of higher authority from inspiring English sources

We as a nation are used to being slapped by those in positions of higher authority.

It is that any form of higher authority has to tailor its commandments to the needs of real people.

But if you feel that you can't talk to the culprit without being punished, another strategy is to speak to someone of higher authority who is likely to be sympathetic.

Mr. Larsen was unable to confirm the rumors about Mr. Eagleton's drinking and electroshock treatment, but he said that "we put it on record only for future reference, when and if Tom Eagleton assumes a position of higher authority".

The Communists have also destroyed Beijing's social fabric, cutting through rich threads of community habit, shared memory and (what always infuriated them) subversive resistance to the madder impulses of higher authority.

"The chant was not invented by the two that led it, but was taught to underclassmen by people of higher authority".

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He believes that in 1977 [the Mothership] attracted the attention of higher authorities.

This very self-regulation, the prospect and peril of local popular rule outside the purview of higher authorities, is the core of the drama.

At least three attempts were made that evening to bring some of the truth about My Lai 4 to the attention of higher authorities.

To become a university president or a faculty dean you only needed to be blessed with a single quality: willingness to do the bidding of higher authorities.