Sentence examples for whose authorities are from inspiring English sources

As Mr. King observes, the Bible's accounts were extraordinarily dramatic: a charismatic religious leader and his band of disciples gather for dinner "in the middle of an occupied city whose authorities are plotting against them, waiting for their moment to strike.

Every Shia layman chooses his own ayatollah, whose authority is determined partly by the size of his following.

It wants national sovereignty, and a Scottish parliament whose authority is limited only by the Scottish people.

This simian Caesar would certainly sympathise with his Roman namesake – a morally conflicted leader whose authority is under threat.

Pilots, doctors, police detectives, ship captain: these were the kind patriarchal figures whose authority was almost completely undone, but who were still in some way necessary.

"What this vote shows is that David Cameron is a Prime Minister whose authority  is weakening day by day," the Labour leader Ed Miliband said afterwards.

It raised questions about whether the United States now faces brinkmanship over a variety of issues between an emboldened conservative movement and a president whose authority is under challenge.

American officials stopped short of suggesting government involvement, but said the attack pointed to a state whose authority was beginning to crumble.

Bishop Bennison, whose authority is not recognized by the parish of the Church of the Good Shepherd, met with Bishop Sinclair on Saturday.

If you have a monarchy whose authority is (however vestigially) spiritual as well as temporal, then you have a political system which is not entirely secular.Even in some more recent European charters, the Deity is present.

One Israel's campaign managers had pretty much expected a rap on the knuckles from the comptroller, whose authority is purely administrative, but were aghast at the attorney-general's decision to launch a criminal investigation.