Authorities in example sentence

Socrates, Plato’s teacher, famously goaded the Athenian authorities by maintaining that he was wiser than the Oracle at Delphi, who claimed to be the wisest, because he, unlike most people (including the Athenian authorities), knew that he did not know anything.

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The authorities could be alerted if the crowd movement slowed down or if the crowd density moved beyond a desired threshold.

We can predict adverse pollution events ahead of time, identify heavy polluters, and they can be ordered by the relevant authorities to scale back their operations.

But the document I happened to see that would help us build a case for the authorities was a document from the army that thanked my father for his work on behalf of the secret services.

And Egyptian activists are assuming that these technologies for surveillance are still being used by the transitional authorities running the networks there.

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