Sentence examples for very authority from inspiring English sources

Such rampant unilateralism undermines the very authority of the United Nations.The charges are preposterous.

As violent pro-democracy demonstrations mounted, questions mounted, too, about the very authority of the palace.

Rome, from which there comes even into our own hands the very authority of the apostles themselves.

He was wise to: the public appetite for those in authority making fools of themselves is inversely proportional to the public's engagement with that very authority.

In the capital, a city that underlines the very authority of the Assad family's decades of rule, hundreds gathered after Friday Prayer at the al-Hassan Mosque.

In the 1960's, students were questioning the foundation of American society, protesting the very authority of the institutions that governed their lives.

The deal was supported by a loan from those very authorities – with no set payback date.

Worse, the very authorities who should be investigating are often implicated.

"I am frightened by the judicial system's increasing dependence on these very authorities.

"You've now defeated the open flow to the very authorities and the American public that need to know".

Thus, the very authorities who had fined and jailed pugilists came to sanction and regulate their activities through state boxing and athletic commissions.