Sentence examples for unfair authority from inspiring English sources

We grant mobsters dignity because we enjoy contemplating the general principles by which they are supposed to have lived: omertà, standing up to unfair authority, protecting your own.

The height of the drama isn't in Picard's relative and incremental well-being, it's in the resurgent and conscious presence of the past — which includes the painful history of Picard's people, the acknowledgment of slights and resentments, and the readiness to push back (at least verbally) against unrepresentative and unfair authority.

Mary Whitehouse [broadcasting standards campaigner] attacked the film on the basis that it was unfair to authority.

(Though the comparison may seem unfair, Tchaikovsky authority David Brown has pointed out that, because of their similar time-frames, the finale of the Little Russian shows what Mussorgsky could have done with "The Great Gate of Kiev" from Pictures at an Exhibition had he possessed academic training comparable to that of Tchaikovsky).

Republican members opposed to the agency's powers repeatedly asked Ms. Warren if there were credit instruments or practices, like payday lending, that she would seek to ban as abusive or unfair under the agency's new authority.

In any case such a system would be unfair unless each local authority could offer all specialisations.

It may be only two lines, but at the top of page 12, under the communities and local government section of the government's coalition programme, is the unequivocal statement: We will impose tougher rules to stop unfair competition by local authority newspapers.

In the recent hit "Hello Teacher," Yin Tsar, one of the hip-hop scene's biggest acts (its name means "The Three Shadows") rails against the authority of unfair teachers: "You're supposed to be a role model, but I've seen you spit in public".

It has authority over unfair and deceptive practices.

Chevron argued this was necessary to protect shareholders against "arbitrary" and "unfair" treatment by local authorities.

This carries two messages for government: one is that developers may be at least partially right when they point to delays in the planning system for holding up new housing development; the other is that it's unfair to blame local authorities when the cuts are imposed by central government.