Sentence examples similar to thirst for authority from inspiring English sources

Police killings of unarmed black Americans have become the kind of civic scourge that creates a uniquely terrible swirl of outrage and grief, especially when there appears to be no concurrent thirst for accountability or change from authorities.

The trade shows the thirst for information in a society gripped by censorship, and the difficulties that party authorities face in trying to stifle that thirst, especially when, people in the business say, officials are among the avid readers of banned books.

These men were fired by different impulses — religion, scientific inquiry and a thirst for fame — but they were not driven (at least not primarily) by a desire to stamp British imperial authority on the empty spaces of the map.

Those who have been condemned to death are remanded to secular authorities, in accordance with the maxim Ecclesia non sitit sanguinem ("The church does not thirst for blood").

By this time, Jirous's wicked tongue, prodigious thirst for alcohol, and aggressive demeanour (his nickname, "Magor", means "a crazy man") led to frequent clashes with the authorities.

Unending thirst for knowledge.

We thirst for exactitudes.

Or: "I thirst for Paradise".

Murray had an insatiable thirst for knowledge.

"His thirst for knowledge is amazing.

Dee's thirst for knowledge was insatiable.