Sentences with phrase «arbitrary authority»

It was a symbol of society's struggle with arbitrary authority and the evolution from one stage in society to another.
Jesus acknowledged that, among the Gentiles, it was common that the great should lord it over the rest and the rulers should exercise arbitrary authority.
Scientific education is part of that heritage, fostering the «spiritual values of humanism» by teaching the habit of questioning arbitrary authority.
Is human compassion alone ever sufficient to produce the initiative to cut off such an existence as this, relatively protected from coercion, from the ills of human temper, from arbitrary authority, from far - reaching and unremitting responsibility» Will human compassion alone serve to terminate such an existence in favor of the fearfully vexed, dangerous, and apparently hopeless role which Moses is soon to assume»
It enshrined the principle of individual rights, and allowed subjects to challenge arbitrary authority.
Are there discernible principles and ideals which can supply modern man's needs for personal and corporate energy and guidance, without surrender to arbitrary authority or retreat into the past?
They do it in every appeal to arbitrary authority.
As they explain on their site, in their opinion, «Satan is symbolic of the Eternal Rebel in opposition to arbitrary authority, forever defending personal sovereignty even in the face of insurmountable odds.»
Federal courts, so far, have not been sympathetic to this broad claim of arbitrary authority.
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