Sentence examples for uneasy authority from inspiring English sources

Though he films animals with a patient, tender astonishment, he exposes the uneasy authority that the zoo's cheerful spectacle depends on, from the orders barked by a stick-wielding trainer at a trio of performing elephants to a ponderously elegant gorilla's angry lunge at a group of admiring children.

One of the reasons I'm a writer is that I have uneasy relations with authority.

Tamara may well have inherited the natural society instincts expected of one of Britain's leading families, but her cousin's brush with the law is merely the latest instalment in the Vestey clan's uneasy relationship with authority.

In an effort to accommodate the conservatives, leading bishops have proposed instead that conservative parishes uneasy under the authority of liberal bishops be allowed to ask their bishops' permission for alternative leadership.

Though the Maoists are Communist Party loyalists at heart, their thinly veiled disdain for many of the country's current leaders makes the authorities uneasy.

In a new dispute between uneasy neighbors, Colombian authorities said this week that Venezuela had freed a Colombian rebel who hijacked a Colombian airliner in 1999.

The Obama Administration's support for the C.I.A.'s targeting of American-born terrorism suspect Anwar al-Awlaki "makes some legal authorities uneasy," reports Scott Shane in the New York Times.

The level of anatomical detail may have made the religious authorities uneasy -- a reason, perhaps, why the frescoes were painted over in the 16th century and only came to light when the covering started to peel off in the 1920's.

However, the authorities are uneasy.

The Abkhaz authorities are uneasy about the Russian embrace, but fear the return of Georgian refugees, once the largest ethnic group in the region.

American interests, however, call for a different outcome, one that finds a balance — however uneasy — between the military authorities and Egypt's new politicians.