Sentence examples for powerful authorities from inspiring English sources

And it thinks in terms of boroughs, rather than large, powerful authorities.

According to one startled participant, officials encouraged the NGOs to be strong in order to "confront powerful authorities"—meaning local vested interests.

It's the machinations of those stupid Americans Asked if she thinks the Kremlin will cope with the crisis, Natalya replied simply: "Of course, we have powerful authorities".

At the moment, that happens to be big, opaque, high-alcohol wines, the kinds favored by powerful authorities that Mr. Kramer calls the mega-validators.

(To take the most salacious of a slew of examples, an American Haredi rabbi who had become one of the most powerful authorities on the question of conversion resigned from his organization in December after accusations that he solicited phone sex from a hopeful female convert).

As James Fallows notes, American officials are defending this operation, not denying it.This is despicable and stupid.All over the world, poor people resist vaccination campaigns in the belief that they are part of a plot by powerful authorities to take advantage of them.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board, an obscure but powerful authority that makes the rules for corporate accounting, is about to change that.

A couple of police told me that they were waiting for some more powerful authority to emerge and define their new role in the post-revolution environment.

The powerful authority wielded by the Fujiwara regents was maintained by their maternal relationship to successive emperors; once such a relationship disappeared, their power was bound to weaken.

A gone-to-seed landscape had an authority that seemed to me incontestable: the powerful authority of silence in houses from which the human voice had vanished.

"Why does such a powerful authority have to be afraid of a simple symbol of the yellow umbrella?" pro-democracy activist Jason Chao said.