Authority in sentence

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What characterizes them is decentralized authority.

And you have full responsibility, but you have absolutely no authority, because governments are sovereign in every decision that they take.

Naela Ayesh, who strived to build a self-sufficient Palestinian economy by encouraging women in Gaza to grow vegetables in their backyards, an activity deemed illegal by the Israeli authorities at that time; Rabeha Diab, who took over decision-making authority for the entire uprising when the men who had been running it were deported; Fatima Al Jaafari, who swallowed leaflets containing the uprising's directives in order to spread them across the territories without getting caught; and Zahira Kamal, who ensured the longevity of the uprising by leading an organization that went from 25 women to 3,000 in a single year.

For those of you that have the authority to move forward towards transparency: it's time to move forward.

And for those of you that don't have that authority: it's time to stand up for your right to.

But in this way, we can begin to use social media as an active tool for social justice, as a tool to educate, to stimulate dialogues, to make those in positions of authority aware of an issue by listening to those directly affected by it.

Because if you look up the word "justice" in the dictionary, before punishment, before administration of law or judicial authority, you get: "The maintenance of what is right."

We started to place our trust into black box systems of authority, things like legal contracts and regulation and insurance, and less trust directly in other people.

I am not saying we do not need hotels or traditional forms of authority.

So my plea today to everyone, especially those who sincerely believe in Islamist jihadism ... refuse dogmatic authority; let go of anger, hatred and violence; learn to right wrongs without even attempting to justify cruel, unjust and futile behavior.

So sort of like the Wizard of Oz, or "1984's" Big Brother, separating the voice from its source, separating cause and effect sort of creates a sense of ubiquity or panopticism, and therefore, authority.

We can create a decentralized database that has the same efficiency of a monopoly without actually creating that central authority.

And conservatives tend to endorse values like loyalty, patriotism, respect for authority and moral purity more than liberals do.

Because this agent then told me, and I quote, "Don't tell anybody, but I have it on really good authority this is going to be the number one script on next year's Black List." (Laughter) Yeah.

What we see now in the world is authority shifting away from humans to algorithms.

So no wonder more and more authority is shifting from us to the algorithms.

But when you have a lose-lose situation like with climate change, it's much more difficult without some overarching authority, real authority.

The old mandate was very simple and very single: if you're in a position of power or authority, you're responsible for your own people and your own tiny slice of territory, and that's it.

And apparently, he disobeyed God, and that's the ultimate disobedience to authority.

And one of you is told by the authority, the guy in the lab coat, "Your job as teacher is to give him material to learn.

So Milgram is quantifying evil as the willingness of people to blindly obey authority, to go all the way to 450 volts.

Milgram's study is all about individual authority to control people.

Blind obedience to authority.

Study the strategies others in such situations used: frontal attack or indirection, coalitions or charismatic authority.

In his essay, "Politics and the English Language," he described techniques like using pretentious words to project authority, or making atrocities sound acceptable by burying them in euphemisms and convoluted sentence structures.

So I know that sounds ridiculous, but I know from experience that people will stay away from the library rather than face the authority of the librarian when they have late items.

By the way, I'm not a moral authority.

But they're also so self-assured that they'll be able to change their behavior once they've earned the authority to do things differently, and that is a trap.

They are profiting for wielding the authority of the inscrutable.

Shakespeare uses these patterns to mock the characters’ self-obsession and question authority with a comic twist.

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