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So we need not just the authority but the enforcement strength to crack down.
But far from stabilizing the monarchy’s authority, Rasputin’s death enraged the peasantry.
Our ways of approaching agency and authority turn inside out to reflect the reality that no one has the answers to the challenges facing citizens in this century, and everyone has the responsibility for trying and participating in finding them.
Meaning that you know you have no authority to change anything.
You know, when it's needed, the authority is there.
But authority is not enough to make people your partners.
And therefore, progress depended on learning how to reject the authority of learned men, the priests, traditions and rulers, which is why the scientific revolution had to have a wider context: the Enlightenment, a revolution in how people sought knowledge, trying not to rely on authority.
Nobody wants the U.S. monetary authority to check their relationship, to monitor their relationship with their clientele.
It's not that they usually sue, it's not that they would win, but it's an indication of the corrosion of authority.
Because life is complex, and here is the hardest and biggest change: We have to restore the authority to judges and officials to interpret and apply the law.
It doesn't mean that people in authority can do whatever they want.
We've been taught that authority is the enemy of freedom.
If teachers don't have authority to run the classroom, to maintain order, everybody's learning suffers.
If the judge doesn't have the authority to toss out unreasonable claims, then all of us go through the day looking over our shoulders.
What the world needs now is to restore the authority to make common choices.
We've lost faith in institutions, in authority, and sometimes in science itself, and there's no reason we shouldn't have.
And I really want to build green, but I'm very suspicious of all of these well-meaning articles, people long on moral authority and short on data, telling me how to do these kinds of things.
Dr. King believed that there are two types of laws in this world: those that are made by a higher authority and those that are made by men.
And not until all the laws that are made by men are consistent with the laws made by the higher authority will we live in a just world.
Leaders hold a position of power or authority, but those who lead inspire us.
Second, the governance is not right because most coastal communities around the world don't have the authority to monitor the resources to create the reserve and enforce it.
I think if I've learned anything, it's this: that no one else is the authority on your potential.
Can you show that you had legal authority over that document?
He wrote some very interesting letters to one of his friends who was J.D. Hooker, or at that time, president of the Royal Society, so the maximum scientific authority in Britain speaking about the brain in the plants.
I only watched the first twenty or thirty minutes of the movie, so I'm not exactly an authority, but I strongly recommend that you don't watch any of it at all and stick with Gaiman's strong written work.
The only woman who shows any "balls" (unfortunate pun regretted) is made to look, talk, and seem like a guy, the other 2 women are portrayed either as sexual objects with one thing on their mind- sex / being sexy, with sex as their only attribute and skill (Iris) - or as freaked out pretty little princesses who's neurosis negates any strength and professional authority they had before all hell broke lose (Doc).
It's fairly gritty and realistic without exploiting the characters but still it's not that interesting either and Billy Dee's character, though maltreated by white authority figures, doesn't really come off as sympathetic.
Lachy Hulme, who plays McDuff, is the only actor in the cast who exudes any kind of authority.
This is the umpteenth nonsensical horror movie in which Malcolm McDowell pops up and he practically always depicts an unreliable, greedy and self-centered authority figure.
The prime threat to any government's power resides in the male population, they're less likely to abide by authority and are more of a physical combat threat.
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