Sentence examples for upon the authority of from inspiring English sources
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.
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 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.
The original Protestant assertion against the Catholic Church bases itself upon the authority of scripture.
A ground delay program for flights arriving at NAIA is employed where aircraft shall be allowed to depart only upon the authority of an estimated departure clearance time.
Alberdi wrote in his book "Escritos póstumos": The revolution of May 1810 in Buenos Aires, intended to win the independence of Argentina from Spain, also had the consequence of emancipating the province of Buenos Aires from Argentina or, rather, of imposing the authority of this province upon the whole nation emancipated from Spain.
Meanwhile, the inhabitants of the new French territory did not recognize the authority of the treaties imposed upon them.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) wrOne "On the Relation of the Individual to the State," (1848) in which he claimed that the authority of the state depends upon the consent of the governed, and furthermore that adherence to justice transcends adherence to law.
A series of treaties between the French and the leaders of the local peoples ensued; however, the inhabitants of Carabane did not recognize the authority of the treaties imposed upon them, resulting in lootings and abductions among French rice farmers by the Karoninka people.
This, however, must not be interpreted as "theological ethics," as if the authority of the moral law depended upon God.
