Sentences with phrase «assumed full authority»

Evidently, he liked what he saw: a tribute to the crusading investigative journalists who brought the Pentagon Papers to the public, despite threats of jail time and worse from the Nixon White House, and a sympathetic portrait of a woman, The Washington Post's Katharine Graham, who in the course of this episode assumed the full authority that men had thought she couldn't wield.

The day after his arrival in Medina the Prophet assumed full authority, started forming the state, and began the building of the great mosque.

Not exact matches

We can pay our full respect to the tested structures of authority in our common life, but all conventional human authorities easily assume a finality beyond their competence, and this is nowhere more dangerously true than in the high forms of spiritual authority which belong to religion and its institutions.

If persistently struggling schools fail to make demonstrable improvement, the state can force the appointment of an independent receiver who would assume full managerial authority for the school and implement an intervention plan.

In the context of the TWU case, the state authority is the BC (or Ontario) law society, and it is people like Jamie et al. who are urging it to exclude a class of citizens (TWU graduates) from full participation in public life (assuming, of course, they can satisfy the objective standards to be lawyers).

Assumes full responsibility for the nursing plan of care, has authority and is accountable for patient care...

There are excellent surgeons and there are really scarily bad ones but they all have a full patient load because patients see the title «doctor» and assume the guy / lady is an authority in the field and must know what they are doing... totally not the case!