Sentence examples for standards of authority from inspiring English sources

It was at Burke's instigation that Hastings was impeached in 1787, and he challenged Hastings' claim that it was impossible to apply Western standards of authority and legality to government in the East.

The postwar educational administration was organized into a three-tiered structure, with national, prefectural, and municipal components—all under the general supervision of the Ministry of Education, which also wielded a considerable measure of authority over curricular standards, textbooks, and school finance, among other functions.

By evading standard lines of authority, Roosevelt guaranteed himself competing sources of information, while injecting a healthy dose of creative tension (albeit some unhealthy paranoia as well).

To insure the final quality of recombinant drugs, every modification of the active protein drug needs intensive analytical characterization according to the standards of regulatory authorities such as the US Food and Drug Administration and European Medicines Agency (Berkowitz et al. 2012; Ahmed et al. 2012).

The gap between NHCs' de jure purpose and de facto activities, for example, was unchanged by the introduction of HIV services and remained heavily influenced by NHC members' imperfect understanding of health centre performance standards and their lack of authority in facility planning processes.

If the double standards of the tax authorities sink into the public consciousness, HMRC risks shifting cultural attitudes and making tax evasion a respectable response to a morally bankrupt system.

The ideal surface would be derived from human tissue, perfectly controllable, and pathogen-free, thereby satisfying all of the standards of the health authorities.

This external effect on consumers paying premiums but actually not receiving health care has to be taken into account in the welfare standard of competition authorities.

In the end, the Dorgan Amendment and similar efforts to import drugs without proper safety certifications would essentially outsource the FDA's role of maintaining drug safety standards to authorities in other countries and not just drug safety authorities, but law enforcement and border authorities seeking to stop the flow of illegal drugs.

By any standards the authority of parliament has declined since Labour came to power.

We talked about setting standards, establishing procedures, creating lines of authority and taking responsibility.