Sentences with phrase «commonly accepted authority»

But it does not bode well for political debates, or a «politics.stackexchange,» if the accepted answer is essentially «who knows because there is no commonly accepted authority».

Since there is no commonly accepted authority — and please don't tell me it's the Bible, since that has produced no unity in Christianity in 2,000 years — then we have to approach things with a lot of humility and charity.

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We also commonly speak of someone being an authority on a certain subject, meaning that he or she is recognized as an accepted source of expert opinion in that area.

(4) the term «false identification document» means a document of a type intended or commonly accepted for the purposes of identification of individuals that --(A) is not issued by or under the authority of a governmental entity or was issued under the authority of a governmental entity but was subsequently altered for purposes of deceit; and (B) appears to be issued by or under the authority of the United States Government, a State, a political subdivision of a State, a sponsoring entity of an event designated by the President as a special event of national significance, a foreign government, a political subdivision of a foreign government, or an international governmental or quasi-governmental organization;

There may be labor / privacy laws in some countries other than the US which allow you to refuse to supply a copy of the ID card except to specified authorities, but in general a business in the US can require showing a government ID (and commonly do do so for accepting checks and checking into motels).