Sentence examples for systems of authority from inspiring English sources

In the past, Chwe pointed out, many public rituals, such as coronations and executions, were ultimately concerned with maintaining existing systems of authority.

With that - and humiliations such as Israeli soldiers beating Palestinian men in front of their children - has come a collapse in respect for the regular systems of authority.

Keneally's characters are gripped by their historical and personal past, and decent individuals are portrayed at odds with systems of authority.

The importance of individualism can be seen in organizational systems of authority and conflict resolution, where subordinates are free to question the orders of superiors and may attempt to resolve differences in a one-on-one fashion.

The effects of the two revolutions, the one overwhelmingly democratic in thrust, the other industrial-capitalist, have been to undermine, shake, or topple institutions that had endured for centuries, even millennia, and with them systems of authority, status, belief, and community.

He sought out and even embraced life's darkness; a Poet Apostate who criticized "normative" values, systems of authority and consumer culture.

It is that system of authority that is at the heart of the corruption.

The shift, Gladwell said, was from a system of authority ranking, or paternalism, to one of market pricing.

The problem with the old system of authority ranking was arrogance — the assumption that the world ought to be ordered according to the whims of Capital.

The new doctrines on faith and the priesthood of all believers rejected Roman Catholic teaching on salvation and the priesthood and undermined the traditional system of authority.

The Chernobyl explosion, 30 years ago this month, arguably played a key role in the demise of the Soviet Union – if only because it crushed whatever credibility remained of a system of authority whose claims included the safe mastery of technology.