Sentence examples for the very authority from inspiring English sources

Such rampant unilateralism undermines the very authority of the United Nations.The charges are preposterous.

As violent pro-democracy demonstrations mounted, questions mounted, too, about the very authority of the palace.

Rome, from which there comes even into our own hands the very authority of the apostles themselves.

In the capital, a city that underlines the very authority of the Assad family's decades of rule, hundreds gathered after Friday Prayer at the al-Hassan Mosque.

In the 1960's, students were questioning the foundation of American society, protesting the very authority of the institutions that governed their lives.

Another, Russia, has lately become openly intransigent, not only vetoing the establishment of new protected areas but questioning the very authority of the convention to establish them.

Worse, the very authorities who should be investigating are often implicated.

"You've now defeated the open flow to the very authorities and the American public that need to know".

Thus, the very authorities who had fined and jailed pugilists came to sanction and regulate their activities through state boxing and athletic commissions.

"The Australian government has a responsibility to assess these people's claims for protection, not hand them over to the very authorities they are fleeing," Hanson-Young said.

The idea that Unmiss required permission to patrol from the very authorities that were responsible for perpetrating atrocities against civilians cast doubt on the effectiveness of its mandate.