Sentence examples for suspicious of authority from inspiring English sources

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Many mezcaleros are by long habit suspicious of authority and more comfortable in the shadows.

He is suspicious of authority, committed to truth-telling and instinctively drawn to the side of the underdog.

The King struggles to govern a Vietnam-era populace that's deeply suspicious of authority; Antinova aspires to play Giselle, but keeps getting cast as Pocahontas.

Surveys done by the company indicate that while people are suspicious of authority in all forms - from politicians to big corporations - they do trust their peers.

Roald Dahl's books, suspicious of authority and repelled by conformity, full of unruly energy and wanton invention, have a similar appeal, though Dahl's imagination was more aggressive than Mr. Anderson's.

She is suitably embarrassed as she watches "our national image sink further in the eyes of the world" for which she blames decades of corruption that "have made us deeply suspicious of authority".

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I am suspicious of authorities with a sense of the dramatic.

Brooklyn's ultra-Orthodox enclaves remain close-knit and insular, suspicious of secular authority and contemptuous of the criminal justice system.

Both punk fans and "Up" fans are "suspicious of any authority," he said, and appreciate that Mr. Hayes "is always willing to challenge his own assumptions, and the received wisdom on both sides of the aisle".

Until the issue of illegal hunting is resolved, the Guaraní will remain frightened of white men in the forest and suspicious of the authorities' commitment to protecting them.

The children, who were believed to be armed and suspicious of the authorities, left the house peacefully around 6 on Saturday night.

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