seat of authority

Example Sentences

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The pew was his seat of authority in The Shoe, and the only chair which fitted him comfortably and in which he could place complete confidence.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

It is propped up in the seat of authority and duly instated in power.

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 by Bierce, Ambrose

It generally argues some degree of natural impotence of mind, or some want of knowledge of the world, to hazard plans of government, except from a seat of authority.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

She was in the seat of authority, the one with its back to the windows and its face to the door, from whence she could see what everybody did, especially Amanda.

From Christopher and Columbus by Elizabeth

The ancient Rhenish town of Worms was during the great migrations the seat of authority of the Burgundian invaders, an east Germanic stock.

From Legends of the Rhine by Ruland, Wilhelm