- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Speak
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
- Classes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.
- Nov 07, 2020
We live in cautious times where HR has a very inflated sense of authority over companies.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved.
- Nov 07, 2020
The state treasurer has authority to weigh in and take leadership roles on taxing and spending legislation.
- Bus Driver
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- Nov 07, 2020
The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
- Different Backgrounds
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- Nov 07, 2020
God created the races. He created different backgrounds and cultures. But He created them all to operate under His authority.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.
- Observation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
- Complicated
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. Constitution grants Congress the authority to regulate interstate commerce, and the ENCRYPT Act sends a clear message that the complicated issues with encryption must be addressed thoughtfully and nationally.
- Fearlessness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was good at embarrassing authority. It was fun. There's a fearlessness that goes along with being a kid.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a historical fact that President Bush pushed this nation into a war that had little to do with apprehending terrorists. We did not seek an impeachment of President Bush because, as an executive, he had his authority.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been any good with authority.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is crucial that the House exercises its oversight functions to ensure constitutional accountability of government agencies, especially as the bureaucracies associated with ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank flex their muscles and seek to expand their authority.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Obama made far-reaching, unilateral changes to our nation's immigration policy despite saying on over 22 different occasions that he did not have the authority to do so.
- Persuasion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.
- Mankind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.
- Authority Figures
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always respected the authority figures in my life, including my coaches.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
At bottom, the decision to pardon Nixon was a political judgment properly within the bounds of Ford's constitutional authority. The specter of a former president in the criminal dock as our country moved into its bicentennial year was profoundly disturbing.
- Against
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I got older, I was able to articulate why I was rebelling against authority - because their motives were much more forceful and hurtful than I had ever thought.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
From childhood to adolescence, girls face mixed messages about displaying power and authority.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised to please people in authority, and I'd also come from a sheltered boarding school, so I was very naive and young for my years.
- Lead
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- Nov 07, 2020
There should be no effort, consciously or otherwise, that will lead to the erosion of institutional credibility and authority.
- Nov 07, 2020
The wisest have the most authority.
- Guess
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.
- Lighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
A museum's meticulous presentation - exhaustive captions, hushed lighting, state-of-the-art armature - creates an institutional authority that is constructed to seem impregnable.
- Franklin
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- Nov 07, 2020
Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
After four centuries of Spanish rule, Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States in 1898. Residents were granted U.S. citizenship in 1917, and the federal government has allowed Puerto Rico to exercise authority over its local affairs in a manner similar to the 50 states.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Orderly Liquidation Authority prescribed by Dodd-Frank should be repealed and replaced by an amendment to the U.S. Bankruptcy Code which would operate to prevent cross-default provisions from impacting derivatives books so long as mark-to-market payments are being made in a timely fashion.
- Promotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Paul Ryan whipped the votes to get fast track Trade Promotion Authority to sell our jobs to foreign countries. He absolutely worked on that. Paul Ryan owns it. He can't say he doesn't agree with it, because when he did that, that contract was already written. It was already set up - that treaty was already set up.
- Cheering
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Pope spoke out with moral authority against violent Islam, I would be there cheering him on.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
The EPA has no legal authority to expand the definition of navigable waters under the Clean Water Act, as the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.
- Congress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't run behind authority.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet.
- Defer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.
- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
- Opening
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- Nov 07, 2020
As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.
- Early
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, early on, I was very distrustful of authority yet needed a lot of approval from it. I was in that kind of bind. Which is a kind of abuse bind.
- Documents
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authority to unilaterally declassify them.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.
- Fuel Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Statutory authority to improve fuel economy has existed for 35 years at the Transportation Department, and it still exists today.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.
- Plague
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- Nov 07, 2020
AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.
- Nov 07, 2020
I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
- Morality
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Oppression
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- Nov 07, 2020
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential to the use and operation of the Internet.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, if I could be anything, I'd love to be a small-business authority type of person.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the maintenance of his opinion.
- Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority.
- Nov 07, 2020
Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.
- Enact
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- Nov 07, 2020
For over 200 years after the adoption of the Second Amendment, it was uniformly understood as not placing any limit on either federal or state authority to enact gun control legislation.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had trouble with authority.
- Bench
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate.
- Against
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020