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Authority in sentence

1945 examples of Authority in a sentence

What I wanted to show you is that scientists, using their from-the-outside, third-person methods, can tell you things about your own consciousness that you would never dream of, and that, in fact, you're not the authority on your own consciousness that you think you are.
He was telling them they no longer had any moral authority, that nobody needed them for emotional support anymore, and they were not really the providers.
The problem with this proposition is that the Chinese state enjoys more legitimacy and more authority amongst the Chinese than is true with any Western state.
And in an age that is sometimes nowadays frightening or confusing, we feel reassured by the almost parental-like authority of experts who tell us so clearly what it is we can and cannot do.
For if we keep our independent decision-making part of our brains switched on, if we challenge experts, if we're skeptical, if we devolve authority, if we are rebellious, but also if we become much more comfortable with nuance, uncertainty and doubt, and if we allow our experts to express themselves using those terms too, we will set ourselves up much better for the challenges of the 21st century.
It teaches them to accept authority, revelation and faith, instead of always insisting on evidence.
They have confronted the authority.
I'm going to let you challenge authority.
And there's an authority figure in the corner behind the teacher's desk who knows all the answers.
It was very hard, you know, to impose my authority.
It's a lot of traditional imposing coming by authority figures such as the men, the grandparents and so on.
I stopped giving it so much authority.
By claiming that we have no power over our past, present and future, we give too much authority to the wicked who steal funds and beg God for forgiveness.
We'll start with the absolute weakest form of evidence known to man, and that is authority.
But we're also unimpressed by authority because it's so easy to contrive.
As we go through our everyday lives, visual and experiential things exert this invisible authority over our brains at all times.
We sleepwalk through our assumptions about the authority in media and assumptions put forth about political realities by media, like newspapers.
And it was with great delight that we found young people up and down the country explaining with authority what filibustering was and why the Lords might defy their bedtime on a point of principle.
I speak as an authority on that subject, because I'm an extreme case.
And on then into the social sciences, where it is possible in short time to acquire the status of an authority.
When the subject is still very thinly populated, you can with diligence and hard work become the world authority.
The first one belongs to those ethnic societies who believe that the state was necessarily tyrannous, so they didn't want to have anything to do with any centralized authority.
And our puny rational faculties have been multiplied by the norms and institutions of reason, intellectual curiosity, open debate, skepticism of authority and dogma and the burden of proof to verify ideas by confronting them against reality.
It doesn't really matter what the statements are about, what matters is that the candidates are willing and able to stand up to authority.
Our local authority has decided to make everywhere Incredible Edible, and in support of that have decided to do two things.
MO: We didn't get our authority from the board of selectmen or the emergency management director or the United Way.
If any of the more rowdier children questioned the authority of the parents, they were scolded.
They're not going to accept some central authority."
When the StarLink disaster happened, there was a battle between the EPA and the FDA over who really had authority, and over what parts of this, and they didn't get it straightened out for months.
There's plenty of parental authority going on.
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