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1945 examples of Authority in a sentence

Searching for my favorite scene is like pulling teeth, so I guess I'll go with the "cherry bomb in the toilet" gag that makes Back to the Future's James Tolkan one of the many grown-up victims (that guy's always playing school authority figures).
At 62-years of age, I have never seen a movie that depicted such utter lack of respect for authority as this movie did.
I'm seldom partial to movies about smart-assed teenagers who have problems with authority, but "Toy Soldiers" has grown on me with repeated viewings.
Patty had to take authority to protect them, since she was the oldest.
Still, it's very watchable, with a young Spencer Tracy (his old-man makeup makes him look just like, well, an old Spencer Tracy) showing depth and authority, and Colleen Moore -- a little past her prime, and not physically well matched -- playing a multifaceted woman-behind-the-man. There's also Helen Vinson as one of the most treacherous femmes fatales in movie history, sending the final third into ecstatic soap-opera reverberations.
The four characters all make you feel for them, the father trying to assert his authority, the mother still clinging to traditional family values and both trying to keep up appearances despite the total fragmentation of their family, the daughter wanting her own life and the son haunted by his experiences in Vietnam.
Recreational drugs, casual sex, and the challenging of parental authority became in vogue and replaced the more time honored traditions of respect for God, country and seniority.
The level of kids questioning authority was kept reasonable.
Yes there were some Black deputy marshals in the Indian territory, but they had no authority to arrest Whites outside of Indian territory.
No small coincidence is that many of the plays that Olcott played in involved a similar plot: Boy meets girl, someone objects, (usually the father or some authority figure) boy struggles, boy wins girl.
Nana Pataker shines yet again in a role that only he can fulfill with authority but the supporting cast are very talented.
It showed how a very violent, reactive authority might react to resistance.
Her replacement of a significant other, not necessarily requiring a father image, however, a trusted authority nonetheless being imagined if not real.
When Evie's only friend James (Fran Kranz) reads the notes, he immediately discloses the truth about the authority of the poetries.
It's a 52 mile grueling trek through the desert to an American flag, with police, National Guard, and various other authority figures in pursuit.
The issue of racism and religious tolerance is one that has been drummed into us from an early age, and, as we've grown, teachers and authority figures have sought out less blatant yet equally-effective means of getting the message across.
but the die is cast and fruit of it all is the new national pastime, skateboarding (the New York Times notes that "it was once considered a snub to authority.
I must tell you right up front, I am certainly NOT an authority on Bollywood films and have only seen a handful.
So, if you wish to be preached to incessantly by those without authority, then by all means, get this film.
I see where it can be funny and it is(hey he's making fun of our authority figure he's hilarious.).
The "zombies" here, as little as they are in the film, are largely metaphors for subservience to the state or authority in general, as in wartime.
On the 26th of September 1983 a short dumpy 60 year old woman stood trial for the attempted murder of Leonie Haddad, a lady whose husband had recently died and had agreed to take in a lodger who came via a housing authority for the elderly.
Very businesslike authority with little responsibility and only a desire to keep his/her name clean - check.
He is an enormous talent and the best at what he does, which is portray a nervous, lovably befuddled loser thrown into a position of authority.
Liam Neeson - apparently popular with the ladies - wears his kilt with all the authority of a man whose Great Grandmama once stepped off the train at Edinburgh Waverley.
It cuts into the real nature of the hospital story and makes everyone angry at police authority.
He alone cannot freeze accounts and have the authority to stop doctors from writing prescriptions for patients.
In Hazzard County, Georgia, cousins Bo and Luke Duke (Scott, Knoxville) and their cousin Daisy Duke (Jessica Simpson) run moonshine made by their Uncle Jesse (Willie Nelson) while avoiding the local authority, Boss Hog (Burt Reynolds).
Vovochka is your everyday hooligan vs authority movie.
How and when did women come to occupy positions of authority in the Cameroon?
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