Example sentences of "authority of [art] [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Considerations of this kind would lead to a good deal of common authority , that is they would legitimate the authority of a government over all its subjects regarding a certain range of issues . |
| 2 | Assuming that this kind of non-instrumental justification applies to consent and can provide a foundation for the authority of the state over those of its citizens who have consented to its authority , can the same argument be used to base authority on the attitude of respect ? |
| 3 | He may have no reason to acknowledge the authority of the government over him regarding the road worthiness of his car . |
| 4 | What Smith 's conflation effectively conceals is the authority of the capitalist over his employees , who are ‘ merely the members of a total mechanism which belongs to him ’ ( p. 477 ) . |
| 5 | One need not invoke the authority of the law over the defamer to justify such action . |
| 6 | The stronger authority of the wife over the children is reflected in their literacy , and hence in the society 's general level of development . |
| 7 | The popes pressed their primatial and jurisdictional claims with impressive continuity in this period ; using every appeal to them made by Carolingian churchmen seeking to bolster their own positions ; making a bid to establish the authority of the papacy over the Bulgarian church ; declaring its sole power to establish a new archbishopric as at Magdeburg in 968 ; and developing the special relationship with the new Polish church at the turn of the first millennium which would ultimately bear fruit in a Polish pope at the turn of the second . |
| 8 | Therefore on one side we must assert the authority of the Bible over man and the Church , and not the authority of man and the Church over the Bible . |
| 9 | While we do this we must beware of those who are so hungry for authority in our societies that they want to press the authority of the Bible over men and the Church in such a way as to lead to extravagance or to sectarianism . |