Sentence examples for purported authority from inspiring English sources

Converts and the newly devout, "dislocated from the traditional hierarchies" of Islam, are less likely to challenge a purported authority on religious matters.

On Monday, a bipartisan group made up of 11 senators sent a letter to the White House calling for clarification on the administration's purported authority to lethally target American citizens believed to be working with al-Qaida abroad.

This law helped suppress competition in cigarette markets and is the source of the FDA's purported authority to regulate e-cigs — authority that both Big Tobacco and many anti-smoking groups encouraged the FDA to use.

The Court of Appeals in Eisentrager had found jurisdiction, reasoning that "any person who is deprived of his liberty by officials of the United States, acting under purported authority of that Government, and who can show that his confinement is in violation of a prohibition of the Constitution, has a right to the writ".

In this case the person is no longer free to act independent of the purported authority.

Today such 'legacy theology' jars violently with any post Enlightenment understanding of the purported authority of religious teaching and, steadfast to common sense, generally raises a laugh.

We argue that there was such an expectation here for a number of reasons, including the fact that promises of community involvement were made, and the authorities purported to consult some local councillors.

Public reason requires that the moral or political rules that regulate our common life be, in some sense, justifiable or acceptable to all those persons over whom the rules purport to have authority.

We must therefore reject the claim that we have an obligation to obey the orders of those who purport to hold authority over us and conclude that there can be no general obligation to obey the laws of any polity that falls short of a unanimous direct democracy.

The document, dated the same day, signed by Yeung on BIHL notepaper, purported to give Pannu unlimited authority to act on Birmingham City's behalf.

1889, 20 L.Ed.2d 919681968), relied upon by petitioner, purported to limit the traditional authority of the arresting officer to conduct a full search of the person of an arrestee incident to a lawful custodial arrest.