Economic support from the rest of the Arab states to the fledgling Palestinian Authority in the West Bank is virtually non-existent.
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.
Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination.
Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated.
The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.
The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
In 1992, I was an official of the Angolan regime. I was appointed by that country to oversee the organization of the raw diamond market and responsible for the governmental authority that later controlled this market.
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.
A precedent provides legal authority for an action precisely because it occurred before.
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.
Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority.
I really rebel against authority.
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!
One of the lasting consequences of the unrest of the late 1960s was the removal of adult authority from the lives of undergraduates at many colleges. And, as a consequence, residential communities developed much as students themselves wanted them to.
In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
