Sentence examples for undermining of authority from inspiring English sources

It can be argued that Pinter's dramas, with their undermining of authority and their dissection of the power plays in group dynamics, are essentially political.

Honestly, if you can't handle a constant undermining of authority and morale in the face of constant, ever-shifting ideologically inspired demands for excellence based on the whims of people in authority with no clue about education, then you shouldn't be in the job in the first place!

"It was like how only the court jester could make fun of the king," says Raschke. "It was an undermining of authority that doesn't really upset the order.

Far from a stand-alone saga, the McChrystal story reflects a widespread development of our time - an undermining of authority of official institutions and a willingness on the part of those who operate within them to flout their bureaucracy or chain of command structure.

Heidegger happens to have been — a blessing and a curse — a brilliant writer, whose serpentine, spellbinding prose was both an argument against the traditional authority of logical reasoning and a performative undermining of that authority.

We have had 20 years of the centralised, standardised National Curriculum and the undermining of local authority control.

It is to shine a light on failures that originated in poor policy, skewed priorities, and the deliberate undermining of legitimate authority".

With its images of perfected mankind, its emphasis on social and political egalitarianism, and its undermining of established authority, millennialism has left, even in failure, a legacy of social transformation.

When a leader begins to equate disagreement with disloyalty, or worse -- the undermining of their authority -- there's no one left to raise the warning flags.

So there's no doubt that was a major step toward the explosion of federal power and the undermining of the authority of the states at the local level".

But a typo appearing on the cell-phone screen of a distressed teen-ager can undermine the sense of authority he's looking for.