Sentence examples for recognizes the authority of from inspiring English sources

They have threatened to form an orthodox alternative to the Episcopal Church, one that recognizes the authority of the Bible.

While the Ukrainian Catholic Church, formed in 1596, adheres to the Byzantine, or Eastern, Rite, it recognizes the authority of the Vatican.

It is sanctioned by Guerrero State Law 701, which recognizes the authority of indigenous communities to administer themselves, "based on their ancestral customs and traditions that have been transmitted for generations, enriched and adapted with the passage of time".

Not one of my brothers recognizes the authority of the LPR".

Seizing on the fact that Section 2 of the 14th Amendment recognizes the authority of states to bar criminals from voting, both the 2nd Circuit and the 11th Circuit have rejected Voting Rights Act challenges to felon disenfranchisement laws, emphasizing constitutional doubts about Congress's power under the 15th Amendment to apply the Act to such statutes.

According to several people at the hearing, including his lawyer, he refused to read the war crimes indictment, saying he did not recognize the authority of the tribunal in The Hague.

They do not recognize the authority of the pope.

Opposition politicians declare that they will not recognize the authority of the Chávez government.

His refusal to recognize the authority of his successor, Theophilos III, seems to be the reason for his current ordeal.

The Greek Orthodox Church does not recognize the authority of the pope, and in his introductory remarks, Archbishop Damianos addressed the him as "president of the Roman Catholic Church".

But the strictly Orthodox community is not Zionist and doesn't recognize the authority of the state's rabbis, obeying instead the rulings of their own sages.