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
There can be no duplicate set of truth, and no double seat of authority.
From A Rational Theology As Taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Widtsoe, John A.
We have seen its seat of authority at Quebec, at New Orleans, at Cincinnati, at Vincennes, and finally at Kaskaskia.
From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)
The Roman Catholic laity have often subsequently rejected what they have considered to be undue political dictation from the seat of authority in Rome.
From The Framework of Home Rule by Childers, Erskine
The old Roman adage, Vox populi, vox dei, is a recognition of public opinion as the ultimate seat of authority.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra
