Sentences with phrase «authority of a certain kind»

It does not point its followers to any single authority, but it does point to the collective authority of a certain kind of science and scholarship.

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After all, the states bore a residual authority to object, on moral grounds, to certain kinds of marriages» as in the case, for example, of incestuous unions.

Here, the idea is not that the person in authority knows better than other people, but that certain kinds of human activity require the coordinated action of many human beings, and the easiest way (often the only practical way) to get such coordination is to set up one person to give directions to others.

Because this authority is predicated on the need to achieve certain specifiable ends that some people may not wish to promote, and because often reasonable people can disagree about how human activities should be coordinated to attain those ends, we get queasy about enforcing this kind of authority by law.

And one could go on and on with this kind of analysis, showing that fundamentalists have a fairly predictable — and common — structure in their moral discourse, that their discourse contains certain distinctions about self, knowledge, agency, authority, community, and the like.

Since 2012, the Russian authorities have intensified a crackdown on freedom of expression, selectively casting certain kinds of criticism of the government as threats to state security and public stability and introducing significant restrictions to online expression and invasive surveillance of online activity.

Advised wine industry association regarding provision in California's Constitution granting exclusive authority to the State, as opposed to local governments, with respect to certain kinds of regulation and taxation of the beverage alcohol industry.

There is a certain kind of Christian clergy who have the spiritual authority to get rid of such spirits / ghosts.