Sentence examples for void of authority from inspiring English sources

They remind us that a mere eighty years ago "the death of God" wasn't a graduate-school conceit but a viscerally felt void of authority and grandeur that ideology rushed to fill.

[Page A19.] But American troops are still being killed and wounded as they try to make Iraq safer and as political factions and clerics rush to fill the void of authority.

Arthur was reluctant to be seen acting as President while Garfield lived, and for the next two months there was a void of authority in the executive office, with Garfield too weak to carry out his duties, and Arthur reluctant to assume them.

Today, in a void of central authority, evil moves through the poor communities of a narco state with a cancerous gravity, making every cell sick.

Since then, conflict has spread across much of Mexico's north, as various cartels, street gangs and crooked police units battle in a void of legitimate authority.

As Locke might have said, unlimited sovereignty remains with the people who have the normative power to void the authority of their government (or some part thereof) if it exceeds its constitutional limitations.

If you wanted to breed a clown, the Signor was perhaps the perfect parent, whose "arbitrary justice and irrationality had led him to understand the world as a shifting plane of ambiguities, void of the anchors of reason and authority a parent conventionally provides".

Questions of authority necessarily arise.

Lines of authority were obscured.

Of authority.

Being suspicious (of authority, of peers).