Sentence examples for terms of authority from inspiring English sources

In the social sciences, studies of complex systems have provided a broader notion of hierarchy and demonstrated that it need not be defined in terms of authority relations.

First, there is a difference between an idea being conventional wisdom in the media, and spelled out in a diplomatic cable - both in terms of authority and in terms of political impact.

Both the GA and HM schemes suggest that most of the messages are generated by peripheral roles (i.e. the less significant nodes in terms of authority and salience).

In terms of authority, the appointed program managers were well known and experienced leaders in the DM community and provided with the legal authority to mobilize all alliance partners in each side of the border.

Parents are above children in terms of authority, and humans above animals, in terms both of dominion and compassion: poor people should be fed before hungry animals… [but] the hierarchical relation of men and women is not so clearly enforced".

A strong sense of inequity in the nature of effects of the reform was illustrated by family planning personnel who perceived they had lost out while health track personnel had gained from the reforms both in terms of authority and actual reduction of tasks under integrated provision.

What this displacement takes from the critic in terms of confidence and authority, it perhaps restores to him in terms of integrity and freedom.

During President Obama's first term of office, authorities deported a record 1.5 million people.

Yet Mr. Rothkopf and even some of the president's aides caution against confusing short-term reassertion of authority with a long-term ability to shape events.

That's a key problem in terms of providing authority in teenagers' lives.

The lawyer thinks in terms of legal authority, clarity and precision, where there is no room for ambiguity.