Sentences with phrase «force appealing to an authority»

I can not say the book is great literature, but it is a good read, and it provides a powerful feel for the day - by - day pressures exerted by a regime bent upon extinguishing any independent force of possible opposition, and especially any force appealing to an authority transcending the state.

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Two forced strip - searches of a child by authorities at a Head Start program prompted by vague claims from an unreliable source could be considered child abuse, argues a friend - of - the - court brief urging the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to revive a lawsuit.

The virtue of socialism, it is argued, is that it does away with such irresponsible authority, and forces those who make economic policy to appeal to the electorate and to justify their decisions in terms of the public good.

The force of Luther's protest against the claims to authority of the established Church is to be found partly in the appeal to scripture, but also in this doctrine of man's condition and of the love of God as present only through God's grace.

When interests conflict, it is natural to resort to force, since it is assumed that there is no higher authority to which appeal can be made for settlement of differences.

So I am forced to appeal to authority — if scientists in credible, peer - reviewed journals take (i) or (ii) to be knocked down, then I'll stop advocating for a lower carbon future (er, if increased ocean acidity is shown not to be a problem).

The confusion is understandable, given that barely two years have elapsed since the act came fully into force and that the Court of Appeal has yet to pronounce upon the key areas of controversy, but nonetheless highlights critical access to justice issues that went unobserved and unnoticed under the previous legislative regime which thirty years» of case authority had fully illuminated.

The main thrust of her appeal was that in the light of the incorporation of the Convention into domestic law, by virtue of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998) coming into force in October 2000, a local authority may owe a duty of care to a parent of a child when exercising, through social workers, its duties to protect children from their parents by placing the children on the child protection register.