Sentence examples for sanctioned authority from inspiring English sources

The personal disappears into the universal as the iconography affirms the king's cosmically sanctioned authority.

Determination of the people's will is a matter of popular participation and empowerment before it is a matter of representation, sanctioned authority or stability.

When it comes to influencing at work, most people default to the organizational chart: What is my title, who do I report to, who reports to me, and how much officially sanctioned authority do I have?

The theory of illegitimate power, which the disenfranchised use in order to navigate through and live harmoniously with socially and culturally sanctioned authority, prompts MacDonald to suggest that second century Christian women may have possessed more power than is generally recognized in traditional feminist scholarship.

There were no body or dash cameras back then, and despite the eyewitness testimony of two white women and several black men who survived the savage violence perpetuated under the color of state sanctioned authority, the officers were acquitted after a state murder trial.

Such legitimately sanctioned political authority is remarkable given that she ruled not as queen in her own right but rather as Lieutenant-General of Catalunya with powers equivalent to the king's.

The Treasury is using sanctions authority created by a 2011 executive order.

"Sanction authority is not designed to be punitive," the administration said.

But the individuals were not designated for their direct involvement in the attack, and the sanctions authority was not specific to cyberactivity, senior administration officials said.

And while those countries are subject to sanctions under other U.S. laws, allowing the International Religious Freedom Act's sanctions authority to expire would send the disturbing message that the United States won't implement its own law on religious freedom.

But the use of the sanctions authority could be more significant if Mr. Obama wielded it against China, which officials believe has continued to sponsor cyberattacks even as the two nations warily seek a working relationship in other areas.