absence of authority

At the top, there was an increasing absence of authority.

In the absence of authority there are three ways to decide what is Buddhism.

Many medical officials say that this confusion points up an absence of authority and action among regulators.

In the absence of authority figures, its citizens behave like teen-agers left home alone.

I pondered and then said, "In the absence of authority there will be wrong-doing."

There was everywhere 'a chaos of Authorities and an absence of authority'.

Due to absence of authority, the people were left to their own fate in a battle of survival.

Moreover, the French bank was not precluded by estoppel from relying on absence of authority as a defence.

In fact, however, 'anarchy' means the absence of government, the absence of authority.

In the absence of authority to impose their ideas successful project managers are obliged to resort to persuasiveness, personal influence and the 'old boy' network.

And interestingly, in Suzan-Lori's play there are two adult brothers who have no parents, and no police officers: a total absence of authority.

The absence of authority shows that no such duty [to Dorset Yacht Company] now exists.

It was the feeling a headmaster might have experienced upon spying into a classroom of diligent scholars, busy with their studies even in the absence of authority.

The passing of the father in both films seems related to Tito's death, as if the sudden absence of authority were opening up possibilities both liberating and terrifying.

The collapse of the State institutions, the absence of authority and the disorder reigning in La Paz, in particular, make us fear the worst, if the worst has not already happened.

A certain amount of patience is also demanded of the reader, who must overlook the absence of authority in Kate's deferential manner and the lack of urgency in her slow, painstaking investigation.

He has never explained his departure from Major League Baseball's No. 2 position, but others have said it was linked to his discovery of an absence of authority in his attempts to ensure labor peace.

Piracy The long-standing absence of authority in the country has led to Somali pirates becoming a major threat to international shipping in the area, and has prompted Nato to take the lead in an anti-piracy operation.

The other partners are only safe if the individual who acted had no authority in fact and the party with whom he dealt either knew about the absence of authority or else did not know or believe the individual to be a partner.

The most disturbing story of survival is told by Jabulile Tshabalala, who grew up - yet again in a broken home - in one of the most violent sections of the infamous Soweto township, where the absence of authority meant the tyranny of brutal gangsters.

As the city was quite tranquil, General Gilly did not hesitate to obey this order: he set out from Nimes on the 7th, passed the night at Uzes, and finding that town abandoned by the magistrates, declared it in a state of siege, lest disturbances should arise in the absence of authority.