Sentence examples for universal authority from inspiring English sources

Since 1929 it has resided in Vatican City, which was established as an independent state to enable the pope to exercise his universal authority.

Intellectual individualism, which has never been popular in any church, put particular stress on a religion that encouraged simple faith and alleged universal authority.

A mother has told her child that Father, the universal authority figure who for centuries has kept society from devolving into chaos, is an incompetent boob, and she has done so on a show named "Father Knows Best".

Classicism's first principle decreed that only the representation of ideal forms could give art universal authority, while Rembrandt, these critics asserted, believed the opposite: that only a shockingly unedited version of natural truth could serve art's highest purpose.

This development contributed to contemporary understandings of the proper relationship between church and state and even to understandings of the church itself; it also led to controversy between later emperors and popes over the matter of universal authority in Christendom.

The Catholic Church is also concerned that tribalism could undermine its more universal authority, especially if clerics are seen as too closely tied to a particular ethnic or tribal group.

On this issue, the Bible was the near-universal authority across the country, much of which had been won over to evangelical Protestantism in preceding decades.

It also does not measure the impact of cuts to universal local authority services used by disabled people.

The drama now being played out on the world stage necessarily draws attention to John XXIII's plea for the evolution of a universal public authority commensurate to the problem of menacing armaments and the promotion of that "universal common good".

He rejected any departure from Greek Orthodox doctrine and practice, including universal papal authority, the Latin concept of the Holy Spirit (Filioque question), and the use of unleavened bread in the Communion service.

Armed with the international and universal symbol of authority, the clipboard, Charlie Todd announced to the other passengers on the No. 6 train that his group had been hired by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to take photographs of every person who rode mass transit.