Sentence examples for resistant to authority from inspiring English sources

On the whole, they are resistant to authority, clever at getting what they want and often excel at plotting.

A new phrase is geared to a younger generation presumed to be highly individualistic and resistant to authority.

Though Mr. Golding was long recognized as an authority on Cubism, he grew to believe that the movement was resistant to authority in every sense of the word.

The following year Keggie, then in her 40s, went with Tom to a reunion of Jedburgh teams, attended by silver-haired veterans all the more appealing because they were so "unruly" and resistant to authority.

Generally resistant to authority and prone to mood swings, Mr. Reed troubled his parents enough that they assented to a doctor's recommendation for weeks of electroshock therapy at Creedmoor State Psychiatric Hospital in Queens; in 1959, while beginning his music studies at New York University, he underwent further treatment.

He seemed resistant to authority in the form of editors and such, but it wasn't just, 'editors do no right.' He was sure of what he was doing".

By many accounts, Mr. McCain's daughters were the most resistant to his authority.

Quebec, along with Alberta, has been the most resistant to yielding authority to a national body.

Ms Miller is held responsible by many journalists for the Government's post-Leveson plan for newspapers, while she – and many MPs – has been resistant to the authority of the commissioner.

This is not the work of a renegade gunman resistant to central authority; it is the assessment of a skilled and experienced fighter and begins to explain how more than 400 Pakistani soldiers have been killed or wounded since August in Bajaur, the tribal district agency that is said to be the haunt of Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Cut off from the rest of China by mountains, Chengdu has a reputation as easygoing but resistant to a central authority.