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...this cycle, we take part in the protection of our local by taking part in the global. If we believe that our responsibility is to the local and their authority supersedes global, then we already have the belief of the local over global. Thus, we already know the importance of our responsibility to protect and preserve organizations, cultural norms, customs, traditions, and...

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... not excluded from Arcadia!) brings matters to a happy conclusion. The various sets of lovers are appropriately joined, and once the corrupt seats of authority back home have been either purged or reformed, Rosalynde's banished father the Duke and the high-born lovers return to civilization, bringing with them a better understanding of what really matters in life....

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... his view; and at the age of nineteen I find him already in a post of some authority, superintending the construction of the lighthouse on the isle of... ...ur person and papers.” To which I replied that I should be glad to see his authority, and know the reason of an address so abrupt. He told me the want... ...ny of the parties appears irrecover- able. Chief engineer should have full authority, full re- sponsibility, and a proper share of the emoluments; and...

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... The initials were MF. Was M for Michael? she asked unto herself, that high authority that answered all of her questions. "Maybe it is," her higher ... ...he fern's soil. "How did he learn to lie?" she asked herself and her higher authority said that a boy did not need a model: he would use logic like a... ...rs into believing that such brevity of lights was a firm reality. Her higher authority said that using logic to one's advantage was an instinct no dif... ...rom her no differently than enrolling him into school this year. The higher authority of self remained her goddess; and it was keeping her wrapped in... ...ed her cannabis again and again. "Miss Sangfroid--yes, you," said the higher authority with a sound and derision of her Aunt Peggy's voice, "look at y... ...erable," said the form gently. The form had become less blurry. The higher authority was now more distinct and Peggy was fading fast. This goddess ... ...t." "Truly the sentimental substance of long term memories," said the higher authority indifferently. "I half way wanted to desert him in a pasture al... ...urself. Cast him away. Let him fend for himself." All the time the higher authority was smiling and talking mildly like a mother reading a bedtime ... ...this boy. I'll keep him here with me." "You silly bitch!" yelled her higher authority vehemently. "I have better things to do than argue with you ab...

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...ic extolling the virtues of racism, cop-killing or defiance of the law and authority. This type of musical message in a cop's house would have really ... ...an" jazz. Except for the mere fact she'd sounded like an avid follower and authority on the subject. The kitten mewled more forcefully against Dagny's...

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...p up, I’ll be on your back like God Almighty.” Chris presumed her tone of authority would have him quivering in his boots. Rick could only conclude ... ...r killing surrounding plant life had her again assuming submission to her authority the best way to go, and easier on Pop’s wallet. She would slash ...

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...ulet dangling around a neck. The one is a display of deference to church authority and objects of reverence. The latter is brown-nosing the head of...

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...ssue an order for me to become a candidate for Imperial Scholar under his authority. After undergoing this eventful promotion, my calculations showe...

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...n, Gaskell established herself as a novelist capable of serious discourse on social responsibility and advocacy for change in defiance of established authority. (Summary by Dani)...

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...ession denoting a serene, unruffled, affectionate happiness, yet with much authority in her mild- ness—warm and open in her own family, but reserved b... ...r. If mamma had been there, she would have had prayers; but now no one had authority enough, though they did at last even finish breakfast. Just as th... ...ster, only eighteen months older, and almost dependant on her, should have authority to dispose of her time. “I practise in the evening,” she said, “a... ...sideration beyond what was strictly right, and forgot that he was the real authority, more especially as his impulsive nature sometimes carried him aw... ...t say that I can let you leave off anything. I don’t feel as if I had that authority. If it be done at all, it must be by papa’s consent, and if you w... ...dd, papa, Ethel is the one of them all who treats me most as if I had real authority over her; she lets me scold her, asks my leave, never seems to re... ...ay, who as head boy had, in play-hours, the responsibility, and almost the authority of a master, had taken higher ground than was usual even with the... ...had allowed. His friend, Cheviot, and the right-minded set, maintained his authority with all their might; but Harvey Anderson regarded his in- terfer... ...ifficult by the departure of his friend Cheviot, who had always upheld his authority; Harvey Anderson did not openly transgress, for he had a characte...

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...as gone, that she might be trusted against the terrible weight of parental authority. She could not endure to be regarded at once a traitor by this yo... ...wife’s imprudence. She saw it all, and was too noble to plead her mother’s authority. But she was not too dutiful to cast a reproach upon him, when he... ...ed to him that this bargaining was alto- gether derogatory to his parental authority, and by no means likely to impress upon her mind the conviction t... ... packs! Might it not come to pass that he should some day become the great authority in England upon races, racehorses, and hunters? If he could be th... ... But you see what she says in her letter to him. She writes as though your authority were to be nothing in that matter of giving up. In all that she ... ...y. And if not between all, who was to maintain the limits but they to whom authority in such matters is given? So much in regard to rank! And then h... ... room with his horn in his hand, as a sym- 414 The Duke’s Children bol of authority, and took off his hunting-cap to salute the assembly with a jaunt... ...such a nature as to make him unfit to be the depositary of that influence, authority and intimacy which ought to be at the command of a Master of Houn... ...pose of making Lady Mabel his wife. On that subject the Duke, without such authority, would not have interfered. But he had been consulted, had accede...

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... mountain without a eye,” said the man. He had got himself accepted as an authority, somehow, and everybody looked at his finger as it pointed out V ...

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...d bands, embroidered gloves, venerable beards, the mien and countenance of authority, made it easy to distin- guish the gentleman of worship, at that ... ...circumstances. One perceived him to be a personage of marked influence and authority; and, especially, you could feel just as certain that he was opul... ...ceremony than any approach to offensive rudeness. There was an odd kind of authority, too, in what he now proceeded to say, rather as if the garden we... ...uished man. But when it came to be understood, on the highest professional authority, that the event was a natural, and— except for some unimportant p... ... fection, once strongly fixed upon him. Now it is averred,— but whether on authority available in a court of justice, we do not pretend to have invest...

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... that all the world obeyed them. She aspired to epigram, she set up for an authority in matters of taste. Literature, politics, men and women, all ali... ...of action; you are only accountable to your husband now; but I asserted my authority so little (perhaps I 171 Balzac was wrong), that I think I have ...

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...h a day had she been present; but she had to support the English governess’s authority, and she upheld her decision that Grisha should have no tart. T... ...nt is, don’t you see, that progress of every sort is only made by the use of authority,” he said, evidently wishing to show he was not without culture... ...y imitating us. Now by the abolition of serfdom we have been deprived of our authority; and so our hus bandry, where it had been raised to a high lev... ... likes swinishness, and that to get him out of his swinishness one must have authority, and there is none; one must have the stick, and we have become... ...cause the peasant hates improvements, and that they must be forced on him by authority. If no system of husbandry answered at all without these improv... ...d disapproved of it, as far as he could disapprove of anything instituted by authority of the Emperor. His whole life had been spent in administrative... ... Kitty, who saw that he was bored in Moscow, and urged him to go, on her own authority ordered him the proper nobleman’s uniform, costing seven pounds... ... by the Tsar and one of the ministers. Katavasov had heard also on excellent authority that the Tsar had said something quite different. Levin tried t... ...ng that the two churches, in their very conception infallible, each deny the authority of the other, Homiakov’s doctrine of the church lost all its ch...

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...t do it against his will, and show him that we are determined to exert our authority. We must quarrel with him, brother Charles.’ ‘We must. We certain... ...e the ap- pearance of her brother than her son. Not being able to call the authority to mind, she extinguished her candle, and drew up the window-blin... ...other word which, however harmless in itself, could be supposed to im- ply authority on my part or dependence on yours. I have no orders, but I have f...

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...n edict threatening excommunication for anyone who watched, performed in, or read the play. Tartuffe, a pious fraud who pretends to speak with divine authority, has insinuated himself into the household of Orgon. When Orgon announces that his daughter Mariane is to marry Tartuffe instead of her fiance Valère, the rest of the family realizes the extent of Tartuffe's influen...

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...s, bush fires, and raising a son in a remote community. Later, it follows her son, Davey, as he struggles for independence against his father’s harsh authority. Davey encounters further obstacles in the figure of local hotel owner, Thad McNab, who is determined that Davey’s childhood sweetheart, Deirdre, should be his own bride. (Summary by kirstyl)...

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..., Marianna, Giles, Bobo, and all the other new friends. That you may long enjoy their adventures is the wish of the author. And so we have it on good authority that these new fairy tales come directly from the ever truthful lips of the Fairy Goldenwand. What more could anyone want? (Summary by the introduction)...

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...ortunity of hearing another equally able person do his utmost to shake his authority and convict him of error. At present such teaching is very unpopu... ...sed to flog him publicly as a satisfaction to what he called his honor and authority. I had intended to give the particulars of this ease, but find th... ...- dience, and continual and shameless assumption of moral and intellectual authority. Thus the schoolboy hears both sides, and is so far better off th... ...to the commission of atrocious crimes, by the slightest challenge to their authority. Thus a laborer may be dirty, drunken, untruthful, slothful, untr... ...othing but a device for cajoling from him the vote he refuses to arbitrary authority. He will not vote for Coriolanus; but when an experienced demagog...