Sentence examples for secular authority from inspiring English sources
3. Double elections arbitrated by the secular authority.
And the military became the arm of secular authority.
It was in this context that the popes gradually increased their secular authority.
In Thailand, the moral authority of monks rivals the secular authority of the law.
It is not for a secular authority to challenge the Chief Rabbi on what constitutes Jewishness, the argument goes.
Brooklyn's ultra-Orthodox enclaves remain close-knit and insular, suspicious of secular authority and contemptuous of the criminal justice system.
Q: How likely is the Catholic Church to report priests accused of molestation to secular authorities?
The act was opposed by the Roman Catholic Church, which objected to education being controlled by secular authorities.
The Middle Ages also saw the beginnings of support for hospital-like institutions by secular authorities.
"Now they're seeing what the secular authorities are doing about it.
The 2009 bill would have made secular authorities the only ones allowed to perform marriages.
