Sentence examples for rejected authority from inspiring English sources

He quietly rejected authority figures — teachers, coaches, host families — who treated him with what he sensed was distrust.

Liberalism replaces those rejected authorities with the idea of individual rights and it becomes the liberal project to build a political system and a system of value on that foundation.

Supporters of the initiative have portrayed support for it as another example in an anti-incumbent year of voters rejecting authority.

Mulder the maverick, fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants character who rejects authority and the establishment; Scully – until she started to believe at least – the perennial pragmatist; disciplined, methodical and obsessed with rational explanation.

Professor Linda Woodhead, of Lancaster University, has polling data showing that each successive cohort of Anglicans is more liberal than its predecessor, in the sense that it rejects authority more and trusts its own judgment more when making moral decisions.

Authoritarianism differs between those who submit to and those who reject authority.

According to multiple studies, entrepreneurs demand independence, reject authority, and don't like being told what to do.

In 1469, the parliament of Scotland affirmed the ultimate authority of James III and rejected the authority of imperial notaries in Scottish civil matters.

Spain, France, England and some other places rejected the authority of the "Roman Empire", but incidents in the history of various kingdoms supported papal claims to authority over kings.

Mr. Breivik said he rejected the authority of the court.

Several other airlines have rejected the authority's overtures.