Sentence examples for uncontested authority from inspiring English sources

Ali Khamenei has never had anything like Khomeini's uncontested authority.

In recent days, the generals had moved to seize the kind of uncontested authority that the former president wielded during his nearly three decades in power.

His statist policies and promotion of a retro-Maoist culture in which citizens sang patriotic songs and dressed in red made him a darling of China's political left and a serious contender for a seat on the Politburo's Standing Committee, whose nine members enjoy uncontested authority over government policy.

The report revealed how Savile's charitable work and status within the hospital were boosted by Thatcher, who in 1980 sponsored him as the lead fundraiser and commissioning project manager for a £10m campaign to rebuild the spinal injuries unit (NSIC) – a move which gave him "virtually uncontested authority and control".

The third goal, which came towards the end of a second half of almost uncontested authority, was indicative of a strangely flat display from Fulham, who were unbeaten at Craven Cottage since December.

So apparently untouchable was he, that his young beauty queen wife traveled uncontested by authorities to Los Angeles to give birth to twin girls in 2011.

Blackburn sat deep, City pinged the ball left and right, their authority uncontested.

His chief grouse was and is that these bodies are run "like dictatorships" by men who have been at the helm for many years, their authority uncontested.

In contrast to the United States, Britain has a tradition of unfettered and often uncontested intrusion by the authorities into citizens' privacy, In the United States, the F.B.I. must first obtain a search warrant before using the Carnivore technology, which is then installed and maintained by the bureau.

Calvin's authority was practically uncontested during his final years, and he enjoyed an international reputation as a reformer distinct from Martin Luther.

In the early 90s, the boss of Cosa Nostra, Bernardo Provenzano, while on the run from the authorities and the uncontested top entry on Italy's most wanted list, used to go to the cinema in the centre of Palermo, risking arrest, to see the last film in the Godfather trilogy.