Sentence examples for undermining authority from inspiring English sources

The five men were charged with terrorism aimed at undermining authority on 29 October.

Find nonviolent ways to undermine authority, Helvey suggested.

Both Plato and Aristotle, Dr. Provine said, were concerned with the power of laughter to undermine authority.

— and the multiple versions of the truth that can undermine authority.

Plato and Aristotle correctly feared the power of laughter to undermine authority and lead to the overthrow of the state.

On at least one occasion, he was told, an instrumentalist "corrected" Ms. Manson's beat in a troublesome passage, the type of helpful hint calculated to undermine authority.

Conservatives fear that subversive art will undermine authority, violate the in-group's traditions and offend canons of purity and sanctity.

The problem long ago entered Mexico's prisons, where "an entrenched system of corruption undermined authority and led to abuses," according to the State Department in Washington.

Mill feared, as did Tocqueville, that the undereducated or uneducated would dominate and tyrannize politics so as to undermine authority and individuality.

Many churches don't want to acknowledge young people -- that might undermine authority.

Such doubletalk only undermines confidence in the authorities still further.