Sentence examples for upon the authorities from inspiring English sources

"I have to call upon the authorities to clarify the whereabouts, the condition and the future of all those arrested".

The crisis, he said, "imposes a duty upon the authorities to listen, to discuss and at the same time a great determination to act".

Because she has called upon the authorities to account fully for the killings of unarmed demonstrators, she has lost her job, and so has her husband.

Anthony Mills, the International Press Institute's press freedom manager, said: "We call upon the authorities to release the journalists imprisoned because of their work, including Irina Khalip, and to ensure that the media are free to report without fear of assault, arrest and imprisonment.

In the name of our humanity, our principles and values, we call upon the authorities and people of our region to demonstrate practical solidarity towards refugees so that they may find safe haven in our midst and enjoy freedom to choose their own future.

"There is a need to call upon the authorities in Kiev to abide by elementary norms of decency, to introduce a ceasefire, at least for a short time for the investigation to go on," he said.

It is distinguished from the philosophical discipline of ethics, which relies upon the authority of reason and which can only call upon rational sanctions for moral failure.

He quoted from it, drew strength from it and founded a church based upon the authority of a literal interpretation of it.

The term autocephalous was used in medieval Byzantine law in its literal sense of "self-headed" (Greek: autokephalos), or independent, and was applied in church law to individual dioceses that did not depend upon the authority of a provincial metropolitan.

Dougan argues that the whole UK legal system "will need to be checked to make sure that we do not inadvertently wreak chaos upon the authority of our public bodies and the security of individual relationships".

The original Protestant assertion against the Catholic Church bases itself upon the authority of scripture.