Sentence examples for place of authority from inspiring English sources

The front matter of his book is packed with poems of praise ridiculing the practice of packing books with poems of praise; the author's place of authority is also quickly undermined, as the narrator claims the book to be the work of an Arab historian that he had translated by a market scribe.

"He was speaking from a place of authority".

"It really excites me to see young people have their first critical epiphany about the media/film - that it doesn't come from some neutral place of authority".

White tiles and neat Swiss typography establish the police station as a place of authority, but equally the whiteness and geometry of Lecter's cell is a diagram of depravity, a frame for deadly menace.

I've never lost a job before, so I can't speak from a place of authority.

Like in other pieces of children's and young adult fiction, the novel probes the place of authority and identity within the youth's relationship to parents and other social forces.

The most libertarian among us might argue that it is not the place of office authorities to police the fridge.

The Bible commands us to pray for all who are in places of authority — and we need to take that command seriously (see 1 Timothy 2 1-4).

Why would the board hire someone knowing that it would place them in a position of authority over the person they were dating?

Thus Lenin passed straight from the log cabin where he had been hiding from persecution to the place of highest authority.

You speak from a place of utmost authority, and you and others like you have been, and will continue to be, heard.