Sentence examples for shaky authority from inspiring English sources

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Here, his concern is words that owe their shaky authority to the authors who, as if counterfeiting money, coined them and edged them into general circulation.

Hiding behind the mask of disinterestedness, Eliot uses the weight of the Aeneid -- with "its fable of exile followed by home founding" -- to bolster his own shaky authority.

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Additionally, Bush is going to have to secure the early and unconditional buy-in of Arab states, such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt, to ensure that they will bless and incubate the decisions of Mahmoud Abbas' shaky Palestinian Authority government, which will surely face threats and violence from their Gazan Hamas fraternal terror brothers to kill a deal with Israel.

The Republic's shaky interim authorities ordered all forces except foreign peace-keepers and the presidential guard off the capital's main roads, but residents claimed that violence continued in alleys and side streets.

Long the third-biggest producer of cocaine, if the country's shaky government loses authority, Bolivia, to some, risks becoming an ungovernable narco-state.Bolivia's politicians propose to dodge disaster by reinventing the country.

Shaky consumer confidence.

It was the second time in six months that President Banzer was forced to retreat on government initiatives in the face of large-scale protests to avert a collapse of his authority and the shaky Bolivian economy.

In short, we are trading in clear protections for uncertain ones, rock-solid legal authority for a shaky one, and robust enforcement authority for a weaker one…My fear is that this is yet another ploy to roll out the red carpet for broadband providers, while putting consumers in the long queue for the side door.

Sayf al-Dawla's physical decline, coupled with his military failures, especially the capture of Aleppo in 962, meant that his authority became increasingly shaky among his subordinates, for whom military success was the prerequisite for political legitimacy.

The workshop conceit is shaky from the get-go, when authority figure Joe Parham tries to demonstrate a romantic dinner date.

Playfully deflating his own narrative authority by allowing admittedly shaky memories to stand as fact, Achebe juxtaposes ostensibly mild personal anecdotes with serious political reflections.

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