The other thing is, authority - a kind of faith in authority makes you think that things are going to be alright.

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She goes on to examine the interplay of authority and faith in many other parts of the world, particularly in Persia, India and China.

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Meanwhile, there was a lack of clarity about the role of the regional health authority in monitoring quality and when concerns were brought to its attention the authority was too ready to put its faith in the hospital's management.

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Standing in the lobby of the MTA's Lower Manhattan offices, Transport Workers Union Local 100 President John Samuelsen accused the authority of bargaining in "horrific" bad faith and said he and his team walked out of negotiations previously scheduled for that day.

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The striving of his successors to emulate him in authority could only be emulation, and not an article of faith for posterity.

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An admissions authority might be a local council, or in the case of faith schools - a diocese.

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