Sentence examples for understanding of authority from inspiring English sources

But nobody had to question his character or his understanding of authority.

This was the understanding of authority held by the ancien regime, where effective advisers to the monarch could channel his efforts towards the common good.

Similarly, satire can help us form a healthier and more mature understanding of authority.

He maintained an almost ultramontane understanding of papal authority and sharply curtailed the authority of national episcopal conferences.

What is more, the district court expressly invites actions for contempt sanctions if the military exercises detention authority in a manner inconsistent with the court's deeply flawed understanding of that authority".

He prefers what he calls a "more relaxed" understanding of legal authority (Dworkin 1986: 429).

Godaigo's ill-fated Kenmu Restoration, an attempt at restoring full political power to the imperial line, was grounded in part in his understanding of imperial authority as defined by Neo-Confucian texts.

On the one hand wisdom here appears to lie in cynicism – in which case, we must conclude: e-petitions are really just a ploy on behalf of the government to perpetuate a naïve understanding of political authority through the illusion, however unconvincing, that they're capable of listening.

Understanding the scope of authority was a necessary but not sufficient step in exercising local-level governance: importantly, they then used this authority to respond to their own analysis of the presenting conflict by strengthening relationships.

Both programme managers and staff alike had assumed that the two organizations' structures and processes mirrored each other but, when the two organograms were mapped out, significant differences emerged which impacted on their understanding of lines of authority and the acceptable lines of communication, as well as on policy implementation pathways.

The letter said that the gay clergy issue "masks deeper, more important divisions within the PC USA)... around differing understandings of Scripture, authority, Christology, the extent of salvation amidst creeping universalism, and a broader set of moral issues".