Sentence examples for petty authority from inspiring English sources

This was on Mount Everest, 29,000ft above the concerns of petty authority, tinpot officials and the pride and boundaries of nations.

But the second thing we need to understand is that this is genuinely a bottom-up movement, and a large part of its purpose is to challenge petty authority.

The babu's known characteristics are his gluelike adherence to "the chair" -- a job, the status, the petty authority, the deference -- and his lordly indifference to performance, as long as politicians favoring him are not displeased or his job is not under threat.

School life was confining, and he disliked the petty authorities he had to contend with.

His laughter had the counter-authority of human intelligence, triumphing over the petty-minded authority of a regime.

The petty European authorities would resist any further concentration of power in Singaporean hands, but Temasek may be happy to trade off a bit of presence in old Europe for the real prizes in the P&O portfolio - the string of port facilities in India and China that are creaking at the seams with maritime business.

In a country made miserable by the petty humiliations of authority, Egyptians were welcomed to the square with boisterous greetings.

"It perhaps bears repeating," Elvis Costello told me, "that he has the keenest ear in the language for the comedy and absurdity of both petty and misguided authority and human resilience in the face of it.

Responding to requests for a tougher approach to petty crime, the authority asked the police to form "neighbourhood task teams" to deal with issues beat constables couldn't handle.Kent is not alone in seeing crime drop, or in stressing links with the community.

Workers placed a boom on the surface of the water to contain the oil, added absorbent materials and notified the authorities, Petty Officer Swanson said.

According to local Afghan authorities, Petty Officer McNeley was believed to have been wounded during a firefight when militants abducted the two sailors on Friday and died from his wounds.