Sentence examples for so-called authority from inspiring English sources

"Every time a joke takes off," Wen says, "it chips away at the so-called authority of an authoritarian regime".

Question so-called authority.

Adorned with drawings of wreaths and skulls, the kid challenges Father Christmas's so-called authority, omnipresence, and penchant for lists.

Numerous so-called authorities or experts recommend massively overcooking pork.

On the planned 16 March referendum for Crimea to join the Russian Federation Yatseniuk said: No one in the civilised world will recognise the results of a so-called referendum carried out by these so-called authorities.

The ranks of the activists were greatly increased over the past decade under a strategy to regain control of the barracks from gangs headed by the so-called authorities, said Valery V. Borshov, a former member of Parliament who oversaw a committee on prison reform.

"The so-called authorities in Kiev continue to wage war against the people of their own country," said the ministry, adding there was a "humanitarian catastrophe" brewing in the east of the country and calling on Kiev to "stop the bloodshed".

The new so-called authorities began by introducing a draft law to revise the language policy, which was a direct infringement on the rights of ethnic minorities.

But the greatest threat they pose is the potential to inspire others to awaken from apathetic complacency and act on their convictions rather than submitting to malevolent so-called authorities.

Setting out Moscow's view of the events that led to the overthrow of Yanukovich last month, Putin said the "so-called authorities" in Kiev had stolen power in a coup, opening the way for extremists who would stop at nothing.

In addition, some programs those authorized under the Federal Reserve's so-called 13(3) authority, which requires a finding that conditions in financial markets are "unusual and exigent"–will by law have to be eliminated once credit market conditions substantially normalize.