Sentence examples for undue authority from inspiring English sources

Shlomit Schuster perceived a power grab by the A.S.P.C.P. board, granting themselves undue authority.

Appearing on the first page of Google search results can give websites with questionable editorial principles undue authority and traffic.

The Republican bill would also give coastal states undue authority over national resources, allowing each one to dictate federal energy policy to 49 others and create an inefficient and uncoordinated patchwork of development.

Furthermore, the volumes were both a scientific and a political enterprise for Priestley, in which he argues that science could destroy "undue and usurped authority" and that government has "reason to tremble even at an air pump or an electrical machine".

This amounted to an undue delegation of legislative authority, the court said in an opinion that raised the prospect that the statutory foundation of many federal agencies could be open to similar attack.

For while the classical sensibility that Dr Johnson represented involved an, at times, undue respect for the authority of sense, the coming Romantic sensibility that Wilkes heralded involved, above all, a hypersensitivity to the accidents of sensation.

But a pragmatic, reflexive approach to the liberal arts would give us an enhanced opportunity to experience the world without undue reliance on unquestioned authority while creating an opening through which we can share that experience with others.

"Accused were given undue liberty by jail authorities," the judge wrote.

With education, more than ever we will need the energising force of outside bodies to continue to raise standards in schools, without undue interference from local authorities.

(If Xiaobo is an important dissident, Han Han's caustic commentaries – which are read by a giddying third of all Chinese web users – leave him free to pursue parallel careers as a racing driver and singer without undue interruption from the authorities).

An advocate of civil liberties, he's deeply concerned with what the cinema's regulars believe to be undue pressure from the authorities to close down a long-standing business that has no negative effect on the local area and certainly isn't a threat to public morality.