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"in authority" Definitions
  1. having official power to make important decisions

170 Sentences With "in authority"

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If the victim could not offer proof that they had reported the abuse to someone in authority, then those in authority were not responsible.
But, mostly, those people in authority believe in our laws.
It's important to have people in authority be held accountable.
As a result, few in authority do anything for them.
For the one in authority is God's servant for your good.
In halting English, she said diplomats in authority were not around.
It would also mean a diminution in authority, title and possibly staff.
This "delay in authority" originally appeared in the 21st Century Cures Act.
You cannot go and talk against any person in authority at all.
In the process he demonstrated that nobody in authority understands basic economics.
With every trip, every photograph of another rocket, CAR's database grows in authority.
Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority?
And in fact, in these groups, the gender gap in authority shrank dramatically.
"Yes I believe in authority, but authority doesn't mean being almighty," Macron replied.
It is not to assimilate and to please any other people in authority.
The people in authority have enough character to live up to those codes.
Yes, the prisoner discovers, everyone in authority is deliberately acting against your best interest.
To have your experience denied like that, dismissed by those in authority, ... it hurts.
Sociologists say that a belief in truth is what makes trust in authority possible.
" It admonished: "One must pursue truth and not feel intimidated by those in authority.
Women stay for two years at no cost and with no live-in authority figure.
For many of those in authority, such views seem totally unreasonable, completely beyond the pale.
Talking to a white person in authority was frightening, and Lakshman said he was fine.
This seeming contradiction, Lewis suggests, points to a larger trend of public distrust in authority.
Trump isn't just good because God chose him or because he is in authority now.
It would seriously impinge the media's ability to expose corruption and wrongdoing by those in authority.
To the face of those in authority, John McCain would insist 'we are better than this.
The vast majority of cases of harassment or assault are not reported to anyone in authority.
"Cases with splits in authority are cases the US Supreme Court exists to resolve," he said.
Someone in authority — to this day, officials won't say who — ordered a shutdown of transit service.
"I am convinced there can be humanity in authority; they are not mutually exclusive," she said.
"For me, it was hard to believe that he hit anybody, especially anybody in authority," he said.
From childhood, I was taught never to question anyone in authority, from teachers and doctors to shopkeepers.
At the same time, the center still believes in authority figures in a way that the fringes don't.
She added that she prays for people in authority who have to deal with the pressures of leadership.
Booth-Forbes claimed that she reported Kramer's inappropriate sexual behavior to someone "in authority," but no action was taken.
A consequence, officials say, is that those in authority dare not put their names to any order or initiative.
During the meeting, Haight said that it was in "the will of all in authority" to kill the pioneers.
This picture of a thriving, vibrant press is one that many in authority would love the world to believe.
It was something in authority that was going in the wrong direction and the youth are all against it.
First, children were taught that adults in authority should be respected and obeyed, that they could do no wrong.
Far distanced from those in authority, a natural gift for self-governance and increasing economic vitality made the Revolution possible.
He always had an answer, he was in authority, and he was sensible, which was a huge thing for me.
The chant, most often used as a rallying cry for people protesting oppression, had been appropriated by those in authority.
While it is up to students to discern between teacher and teachings, those in authority have a responsibility to protect.
Widman's idea was to argue that the sheer scale of abuse made it impossible that those in authority did not know.
Other problems include high long-term unemployment, a loss of trust in authority and the failure to co-ordinate economic policy.
Priebus' effectiveness has been hurt by the fact that he is perceived as weak and lacking in authority over personnel matters.
As well as being a straightforward propaganda tool, lying in this way is also, for both men, an exercise in authority.
And free expression has been interpreted in ways that have tended to support those in authority, rather than all people equitably.
However, we needed someone in authority — a coroner, a police officer or someone from the sheriff's office — to confirm what happened.
If he doesn't, he'll self-destruct or quit — or else somebody in authority will figure out a way to jettison him.
Someone in authority at Georgetown needs to come down and actually meet with each descendant and see what each descendant needs.
I have no idea whether this sort of play leads girls to grow up to accept abuse from people in authority.
To think that it used to be a shock that a man in authority might abuse his position for corrupt ends.
And even if Mr Rasoul feels badly let down by those in authority, he is still buoyed by the "amazing" public support.
That too, would help provide greater assurance across the country that those in power, those in authority are taking these issues seriously.
"Trust in authority disintegrated, and at its core, society is based on trust," Barry wrote in a recent New York Times column.
But the report also explained how, especially in early years, some in authority looked to sports as an instrument of forced assimilation.
"The time has come for someone in authority to properly look into these obvious violations of state law," Ms. Stewart-Cousins wrote.
Uzzi: Which is interesting because, to some extent, how we think about another group is normally determined by people in authority positions.
Military officials have said the shift to battlefield commanders is a net positive, and that the changes in authority have been overstated.
"I would expect people to make a better decision that are in authority positions within the school district," Leivas said in a deposition.
It wasn't just that I was a good girl who wanted to please people in authority positions — I was raised by two teachers.
Battle for Indonesia's soul Knight said nothing will change until those in authority stand up for the rights of gay citizens across Indonesia.
The army has a new chief, and the Royal Command Guard, which answers directly to the king, is expected to gain in authority.
At a time of fraying trust in authority figures, children — who by definition have no authority over anything — are increasingly driving the debate.
But even when interviews are founded on mutual respect, critics say, they socialize youth to blurred sexual boundaries with men in authority positions.
Others see the chaos and violence in nearby Syria, and worry about what could happen if Iran suffered a similar breakdown in authority.
Winnie Byanyima, executive director of Oxfam International, said those in authority needed to reevaluate their systems in order to address poverty and tackle inequality.
But in saying this, Trump implicitly accepts Saudi claims to leadership of global Islam, comparable in authority to the Vatican as seen by Catholics.
The only difference is, the second time, he realizes that working blindly within the system and putting unchallenged faith in authority figures doesn't work.
The Post stretches to imply that The National Security Advisor — an official not even confirmed by the Senate — should outrank the president in authority.
They will always prefer realistic art instead — as long as someone in authority assures them that it is (a) new, and (b) not realistic.
It had bold capital letters that made me wonder what I had gotten myself into: "Authority — ABSOLUTELY NO ARGUING OR QUESTIONING THE PERSON IN AUTHORITY!!!"
None of them have heard from anyone in authority from Amazon beyond a reply from a customer service representative promising to forward her complaint on.
The needs of the bottom come first, followed by the needs and wants of the person in authority, and, finally, the wants of the submissive partner.
When officials told her of a scheme to grant trading licences, she applied, sick of having to run and hide whenever she saw anyone in authority.
In countries where trust in authority is low, and fear is high, voters may even think that technology will let the government know how they voted.
The experts said the discipline imposed by IS remains intact and IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi "remains in authority" despite reports that he was injured.
Above all, the Bible enjoins us to pray for the people in authority and that is what we will do since we want peace to reign.
I now understand — like many girls and boys who are abused by people in authority over them — there's a lot of fear and manipulation and shame.
The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday pressed a Pentagon official on the proposed change in authority for the U.S. military's digital force.
This is exactly the kind of behavior that makes employees afraid to come forward because they know people in authority won't care and they'll get fired.
For example, in a March 16, 2016 interview with German media outlet Deutsche Welle, PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah acknowledged that "torture happens" in authority prisons.
The Senate is taking up its version of an annual defense bill, setting the stage for debate over a change in authority for U.S. Cyber Command.
Survivors recount Nassar's pattern of abuse, making clear that they found it hard to believe those in authority could have been oblivious to concerns expressed about him.
A history of scheming Borgia cardinals, waves of foreign domination, papal crackdowns and corrupt governments had imbued Italians with an abiding distrust in authority, Mr. Campi said.
"As someone who typically obeys people in authority, I did as I was told under the idea that they had Americans' best interest in mind," she said.
Public health experts say this underscores the importance of factors beyond medicine - such as trust in authority, engagement and accurate information - in successfully controlling outbreaks of infectious diseases.
Turnbull also stressed the importance of obeying people in authority, which really paid off because when the time came, the children climbed out of the creek without complaint.
Women aren't the only people in authority in the series by any means — they just stand out because they're so unlike women in power in so many other shows.
The Senate version of the annual defense authorization bill, released Thursday night, veers away from its House counterpart on a change in authority for the U.S. military's cyber unit.
HARARE (Reuters) - Robert Mugabe's 37-year rule may be over, but a culture of political fawning by the Zimbabwean state media and fear of those in authority still flourishes.
"If you have women like that in authority, you have reason to be afraid," Fletcher told Vanity Fair of her most famous role, for which she won an Academy Award.
Complicating Daines and Warner's effort is the fact that the administration opposes a statutory change in authority for U.S. Cyber Command, which currently sits under the auspices of Strategic Command.
To have your experience denied like that, dismissed by those in authority, dismissed perhaps even by your white friends and co-workers and fellow church members, again and again and again?
"This didn't just start, it's been going on for a while," she said of the drive behind the #MeToo movement and people sharing stories of men in authority crossing the line.
To reassert control, he called on students and workers to "bombard the headquarters", that is, attack everyone in authority—except himself and those he had clearly signalled to be his allies.
In a study issued last year, the co-chairwomen of a commission task force said that roughly three of four people experiencing such harassment never tell anyone in authority about it.
As a result, Brazil's main political parties, which have taken uninterrupted turns in authority for decades, are focused not on governing the country, but on building alliances to stay in power.
It's been a diminution in stature, in authority ... in the ability of our constitutional order to provide the kind of real balance and oversight that is so critical to good government.
This to me is a strange omission, given that art schools are by their very nature full of young people who are mentored by older and predominantly male people in authority.
Wednesday night is important for business, as love and money planet Venus gently harmonizes with disciplined Saturn—it's a favorable time to ask those in authority for whatever payments you are owed.
Liberal and left media is always at the mercy of the free market, but conservatives—true believers in authority and hierarchies, after all—are more directly at the mercy of their masters.
One thing is for certain, the absence of a presidential special envoy means there is currently no one in authority pushing the machinery of government to ensure the President's vision is realized.
"Somebody in authority would make the decisions, all the mitigation that should be coming out of it, whether it's environmental mitigation, other mitigation, gets decided at that moment and that's it," he said.
"War has accustomed the subjects of modern governments to the experience of having their wealth, their property, their occupations, and their activities managed by those in authority," Oakeshott explained in posthumously published lectures.
To have your experience denied like that, dismissed by those in authority, dismissed perhaps even by your white friends and co-workers and fellow church members again and again and again — it hurts.
A bipartisan group of senators wants to bring the Senate version of a national defense bill in line with its House counterpart on a change in authority for the U.S. military's cyber unit.
His pick for labor secretary failed in part because no one in authority seemed to know that the nominee had employed an undocumented immigrant and had been accused of abusing his ex-wife.
To have your experience denied like that, dismissed by those in authority, dismissed perhaps even by your white friends and co-workers and fellow church members again and again and again—it hurts.
WITH Wagnerian grandeur Germans from time to time like to speculate about Kanzlerdämmerung, or the twilight of the chancellor—the slow but tangible decline in authority that has affected many former heads of government.
And my point is, when people in authority mention writers, they confer upon those writers a leg up into the canon, and the same people get mentioned over and over again and become canon.
Whether traced to declining credibility of persons in authority, the growing power of money and corporations throughout society, or feelings of powerlessness, a generalized lack of faith in our bedrock institutions has been deepening.
"I was on the True Lies set for 3 weeks and reported Joel Kramer's inappropriate sexual behavior towards 12-year-old Eliza to a person in authority," Sue Booth Forbes said in a statement.
In reality, however, advice from business leaders has generally been worse than useless this past decade, while the voices in the air heard by madmen in authority have, as usual, given very bad advice.
What is much more apparent, however, is that their spread points to an unquestionably alarming tendency – a growing lack of respect for the truth, and increased willingness amongst those in authority to disregard it altogether.
There you find that writing ability or general intelligence mean nothing if you don't have the right connections, or the ability to flatter those in authority, or a father who once held the same job.
All other advisers, from the vice president to the chief of staff to the cabinet members, fade in authority when there's one person sitting at the table who happens to be married to the boss.
"The environment was compounded by a lack of willingness by those in authority to exercise a duty of care," she said, alleging that the Department of Education and the police had turned a blind eye.
The harsh reality of border enforcement tends to breed callousness and prejudice, of the sort that pervades a recently-exposed Border Patrol Facebook group, unless someone in authority is pushing back hard against that tendency.
This, what it took to get here, what we had to go through for our voices to be heard because of the responses of the adults in authority, has greatly compounded the damage we suffer.
" Pompeo said he would not recuse himself from any involvement in authority role involving the impeachment probe, and added: "I know precisely what American policy was with respect to Ukraine I was working on it.
Because President Trump's been in office less than two months, and like any first president in his first year, he's not expected to know or to be in authority on the actual State of the Union.
There's a justified impression that the backlog of untested rape kits is, at least in part, a result of indifference on the part of the police and others in authority dismissing rape as unworthy of prosecution.
But I think the issue is broader: We are in a dangerous time, both for the effectiveness of important social institutions and for the physical safety of lawmakers, because of a collapse in public trust in authority.
" When Egyptian voters elected a new Parliament in December, a preacher on state TV urged its members to "obey those in authority, specifically the highest authority," and referred indirectly to Mr. Sisi as "God's shadow on earth.
During his testimony, Mr. Comey was asked why he had not responded more robustly, why he had not told Mr. Trump that he, the president, was acting inappropriately or reported his behavior immediately to others in authority.
In the first few seconds of China Girl, a group of mostly-male cadets in training are unable to stop giggling in Robin's presence, seemingly just because she's a woman in authority, and, gee willikers, isn't that cute.
The worst part, said Maria Santana, who was at home in Lawrence when she smelled gas, was that the explosions came without warning and that no one in authority seemed to have any idea of what was happening.
We are instructed in God's word to pray for those in authority, with the goal of peace "for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life" (1 Timothy 2:2).
"But these gatherings may not contribute to tensions in our society and everyone who wants to hold a gathering is obliged to follow instructions of those in authority so that public order and safety can be guaranteed," Rutte added.
The Hill's Katie Bo Williams explains: A bipartisan group of senators wants to bring the Senate version of a national defense bill in line with its House counterpart on a change in authority for the U.S. military's cyber unit.
Ideology, a cousin of dogma which is something set forth as incontrovertible truth by someone in authority, is a strict set of beliefs that people hold to on an issue and from which they may not, sometimes cannot, waiver.
Swami Chinmayanand, who previously served as India's minister of state for internal affairs, has been charged under a section of the Indian penal code that covers sex crimes by a person in authority, his lawyer, Pooja Singh, told Reuters.
"When journalists are not able to question those in authority, hold them to account, freely and with impunity then you start a slippery slope to the closed societies that none of us want to see growing in influence," he said.
"If a female student turned up at school or at a university lecture looking like a bank robber then ditto: those in authority should be allowed to converse openly with those that they are being asked to instruct," he said.
Women employed in the hospitality, waitressing, trucking and delivery industries spoke with ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer about the harassment they face from those in authority and the customers they serve in a new special report, My Reality: A Hidden America.
Despite all their flaws, the liberal democracies remain amongst the only countries in the world where citizens are not in abject fear of those in authority, where liberty and even life are broadly protected against the savagery of unrestricted government power.
"This judgment is a timely reminder to those in authority facing a climate of dissent (that) the right to protest is a longstanding fundamental right in a democratic society that should be guarded, not prohibited by overzealous policing," he added.
This vast wealth also allowed them to challenge — and in some places usurp — the government's monopoly on force and governance as they pursued their campaign of "plata o plomo" (silver or lead) to either bribe or kill people in authority.
Yet no sooner had the press gotten wind of the hefty price tags on the dark suits that seemed to cloak the slightly built Mr. Macron in authority than a tailor was found to make him a cut-rate version.
Related: The scariest part of Halloween may be costume contact lenses, an eye doctor says Why did a series of rumors, very loosely based on a small number of tragic crimes, convince so many people in authority and lead to such panic?
I wasn't trying to get Mara in trouble — the thefts were so bizarre, and Mara so absent of malice, that it seemed impossible she would be punished for them — but I did want someone in authority to know that they were happening.
"What a ruling in 4th Circuit in favor of the administration would do is create a split in authority between federal courts in different parts of the country," said Richard Primus, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Michigan law school.
Further improving public awareness of the problem will need the help of NGOs and a freer press (free, for example, to point out that abusers are often people in authority—Ms Ye, the activist, was harassed by officials for trying to do so).
While military-to-military cooperation between American and Turkey has improved significantly in the last six months, according to Stein, the upheaval in the army and the potential decrease in authority for pro-Western factions in the military could affect the course of this cooperation.
Gaslighting doesn't always go from men to women, but when we're talking about me as Morgan, a victim of gaslighting by men in authority positions throughout the decades, I'm left to wonder why there was an option to play as a male Morgan at all.
He didn't mean only restraints of the leather kind, but also much larger cultural burdens, like colonialism, which he addressed in "Authority Inside" (2016), a ballet staged in the archival vault of the African collection at the Agnes Etherington Art Center in Kingston, Ontario.
"[As women,] we have to get better at trusting our hunches and trusting our opinion, even if someone in authority is telling us to move along or telling us that we're wrong or, 'Oh, little missy, you don't know how the big, bad world works,'" she says.
Why it matters: In a detailed report, the Pennsylvania grand jury not only uncovered a series of abusive behavior by priests, many of whom have since died or left the ministry, but also ongoing efforts by those in authority to belittle and cover up these incidents.
You come away from his book thinking that it might be a good idea to stop your ears whenever someone in authority starts invoking Kipling, unless it's to quote from his "Epitaphs of the War": If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied.
"For example, being raped by a family member, someone in their college network, a person in authority, or someone with substantial clout might make a victim feel 'guilty' for saying anything against them, or that there would be personal or professional consequences if they did," Gurner said.
"There is a change in authority and it does elevate the position, but practically speaking, day to day, it's already the same people that are doing this mission," Brian Weeden, a space expert at the Secure World Foundation, a nonprofit that specializes in space security, tells The Verge.
"He did something that we see happening over and over from [positions] in authority dealing with these kind of cases: making the perpetrator into the victim, showing sympathy and praise for the perpetrator, and trying to make him into the victim," director Mark Lawrence told The Salt Lake Tribune.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rebuffed the NLRB's assertion that it has the built-in authority - beyond its powers set forth in the National Labor Relations Act - to award attorneys' fees in order to maintain the integrity of its proceedings.
For many young people at the time, the Cultural Revolution was a thrilling experience, a period when those in authority were humbled and peasants and workers were encouraged to speak up (as long as they supported Mao); when students could travel free by train and meet comrades from other parts of China.
This is what it looks like when institutions create a culture where a predator can flourish unafraid and unabated and this is what it looks like when people in authority refuse to listen, put friendships in front of the truth, fail to create or enforce proper policy and fail to hold enablers accountable.
In Europe, despite the frequent terrorist attacks over the past year—including the attacks in Paris on the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists and journalists in January last year, and on cafés and a concert hall in November—it appears security most depends on those in authority gathering good intelligence to foil attacks before they are launched.
"I think the story is really at its core about prayer and it's about calling our nation to prayer," We are a divided nation in a lot of ways, but when you look at leadership,… when you look at it from a biblical perspective, we are called to pray for our leaders…whoever is in authority over us.
"The Department of State is excited to work on this innovative blockchain-based pilot," Deputy Assistant Secretary Scott Busby said in an email to Reuters, noting that while blockchain cannot compel companies or those in authority to abide by the labor contracts, it can create a validated chain of evidence that will encourage compliance with those contracts.
We&aposre going to pray for our president and leaders and those in authority, we&aposre going to pray for our country, we&aposre going to pray for the poor and all those who are in need of help and we&aposre going to pray that we can find a way to help and come together as a country.
This is what it looks like when someone chooses to put their selfish desires above the safety and love for those around them and let it be a warning to us all and moving forward as a society, This is what it looks like when the adults in authority do not respond properly to disclosures of sexual assault.
Honor them, learn from them, follow their example, give them the honor that they are due," Pence said, urging the students to "take the time to demonstrate respect for those who have been placed in authority over you, to listen to them, to defer to them, even when you offer them the broadest range of your counsel and your talents.
" In an editorial in the newspaper, Annie Riddle said that while there "wasn't a hint of panic" during the first days of the investigation, residents have become progressively more concerned, as they have watched "more and more areas being taped off, barriers going up, more and more military and emergency services rushing about, and with nobody in authority saying a word.
He had been employed for many years as the janitor at a boarding school and now found himself in a somewhat similar place: an institutional building with institutional furniture and a great many people coming and going, especially in the daytime, some in authority, and dressed accordingly, others under their guidance; there was also a strict curriculum, with fixed mealtimes and fixed times for getting up and for going to bed.
On a night haunted by the reality of Trump that few had the guts to engage directly, Davis and Streep teamed up to give us a scene that reconciled the frivolity of the occasion and the gravity of our era by reminding their peers of their better calling as artists and reminding everyone in culture making and culture keeping industries the importance of pursuing great work that speaks the truth and holds those in authority accountable.
The fact that all of this "winning" is not reflecting in his opinion polls -- which still put his job approval below 50% -- only demonstrates that for Trump to triumph in his own particular way, he has to alienate a lot of people on the other side of the argument, to divide the country in two and trust that there are enough of his people in the right number of congressional districts, or electoral votes-rich states, to keep him in authority.
His gasp was multiplied by the witnesses on the platform, the shock quickly followed by panic, both general and specific: people yelling the obvious, that a person had fallen on the tracks, right there, the homeless guy, on the tracks; people cursing as if only "fuck" and "shit" and various combinations of those words could sum up the situation; people rushing for the stairs, unprepared to be present for the potential tragedy and innately understanding the coming commuter hell; people invoking Jesus Christ and the prayers associated with His name; people narrating every detail and in some cases filming the scene with their phones; people commanding unseen people in authority; people imploring the man on the tracks to get up and move, just get up and move; people at the far end of the platform leaning into the tunnel and waving their arms in a desperate semaphore of Halt!

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