Sentence examples for terrible authority from inspiring English sources

Giving teachers nicknames is a way of weakening their terrible authority, probably.

In his triple portrait of Freud he uses the archaic format of the gothic triptych to give the image a three-eyed variety and terrible authority.

Vincent said: "Bill once told me: 'I have a terrible problem with authority.

The blasted trees of his 1918 We Are Making a New World and the spectral starburst in The Ypres Salient at Night, from the same year, have a terrible, almost mystical authority.

1.  "We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly".

For example, when the Isaac Middle School in Phoenix, Arizona, showed consistently terrible results, the authorities sent in a new principal, Armando Chavez.

Finally, Satan, or an entity with a comparable amount of authority, told terrible racist and lizard-man Donald Sterling to drop his suit against the NBA and sell the LA Clippers to Steve Ballmer.

There were problems with the police, of course there were, but I'm not convinced that the Police Authorities are terrible enough to need dismantling completely and replacing with this system which is effectively the same sort of thing (couched as police and crime panels) headed up by a scapegoat.

Loosening the FDA's regulatory authority is a terrible idea.

One reason that an Israeli court wrongly convicted John Demjanjuk of having been Ivan the Terrible of Treblinka was that authorities in the United States and Israel ignored exculpatory evidence and refused to share relevant information with the defense.

But both the revelations and the cover-up did terrible damage to America's moral authority.