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We live in cautious times where HR has a very inflated sense of authority over companies.
Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power.
Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.
[It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws.
I want to always be viewed by my readers as a friend and not as an authority or an expert.
No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.
If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.
Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
I've always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet.
I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.
The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.
I remember somebody came in with Chicago Transit Authority, and we listened to it one time.
Honestly, if I could be anything, I'd love to be a small-business authority type of person.
You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven.
I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.
The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.
It is a lifelong choice to deliberately and habitually bring ourselves under God’s authority.
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.
Individuals who attempt to please and individuals who become angry both have authority issues.
I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.
I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.
From childhood to adolescence, girls face mixed messages about displaying power and authority.
The saving ordinance of baptism must be administered by one who has proper authority from God.
We [americans] have earned the moral authority, at least compared to anybody else in the world.
We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.
Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.
Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.
Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws.
It should go without saying that regular citizens have no authority to arrest or detain anyone.
In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority.
Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.
Artists will always depend on the brick-and-mortar ecosystem to establish authority and context.
It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous.
My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that.
They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.
My favorite job is Petro Poroshenko. I am happy with the authority and high status this gives me!
As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable.
Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want.
No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.
I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.