Similar words: full authority, local authority, special authority, judicial authority, functional authority, authority, good authority, port authority. Meaning: n. a person who exercises authority over civilian affairs.
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1. In the judgment of the civil authorities, there is scant evidence against you and even less space for holding you.
2. The evacuation of many schools gave military and civil authorities the opportunity to requisition the buildings for their own use.
3. An archbishop presided at her requiem and her bier was carried through the city by leading members of the civil authorities.
4. You must have a civil authority you can trust.
5. Rising in revolt against civil authority or a government in power; rebellious.
6. Calvin felt it quite in order that the civil authority should adjudicate in matters of doctrine.
7. Its purpose is to secure religious liberty in the individual by prohibiting any invasions thereof by civil authority.
8. It might be, that a sluggish bond-servant, or an undutiful child, whom his parents had given over to the civil authority[Sentencedict.com ], was to be corrected at the whipping-post.
9. Malashenko says one needs to think for a second that a judge - a civil authority - can provide instruction about proper or improper religious ritual.
10. John Calvin's attitude towards the issue whether it is lawful to rebel the civil authority, especially those unjust kings or magistrates when Protestants are persecuted is very complicated.
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