How To Use civil authority In A Sentence
- Even the chief civil authority of the town was deterred from sallying forth by a remembrance of a predecessor in the provostship who had been buried in a stable mixen all but his head, to the detriment of his clothes and the still greater and more lasting hurt to his dignity. Patsy
- They exercised considerable civil authority, such as processioning the bounds, or beating the bounds, of all farms and plantations, and the making levies for the support of paupers and unfortunate children. A History of Caroline County, Virginia
- In 18 he was given tribunician power for five years, a power held otherwise only by Augustus, and his imperium (overriding military and civil authority) was renewed for the same period.
- Malashenko says one needs to think for a second that a judge - a civil authority - can provide instruction about proper or improper religious ritual.
- Savoonga is run collegially by a loose, three-part government: a tribal council, a native corporation that owns the island—all Eskimo residents are shareholders—and a civil authority, headed by Mayor Jane Kava. The Fiddler in the Subway
- All these methods are more or less included in the ordinary sense of the term nomination; but in its strict canonical sense, nomination is defined as the designation of a person for an ecclesiastical benefice or office made by the competent civil authority and conferring on the person named the right to be canonically instituted by the ecclesiastical superior. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
- Its purpose is to secure religious liberty in the individual by prohibiting any invasions thereof by civil authority.
