Sentences with phrase «challenge accepted authority»

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Democrat Cynthia Nixon, who is challenging Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary, accepted an invitation from Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams to tenants at the New York City Housing Authority's Albany Houses in Crown Heights yesterday morning.

Just as he challenges the accepted tenets of school design, he wants young people to challenge authority.

At The Key, we see concerns over school places reflected in the questions school leaders ask us — such as if and when a school must accept certain pupils, and when a local authority's direction to accept extra pupils can be challenged.

I don't mean the sort of respect that is old fashioned «teaching by authority», where you accept and memorize everything I say because I'm the teacher and I said so; I actually tell my students not to believe what I way just because I'm the teacher, to challenge it, to test it, and then when it makes sense or corresponds to their experiences in the labs (which at least spot check the concepts, although such checks can not be exhaustive) accept it and build a strong conceptual understanding.

While the case is perhaps most notable for a sustained blast by Sedley LJ against the injustice he sees as having been done to her by the previous health secretary who stepped in to stop the trust making the severance payment it had agreed, the principal judgment on the substance of the case was by Laws LJ who accepted that payments by public authorities to their employees can be challenged under administrative law principles, but obviously found it in general invidious if an authority is using such principles to try to avoid a contractual agreement made by itself.