Because he commits hostilities upon the subjects and property of any or all nations, without any regard to right or duty, or any pretence of public authority.
He has pronounced Dolabella a public enemy, he has declared his opinion that his property ought to be confiscated by public authority.
We must take care, therefore, O conscript fathers, to sanction the private decision of Decimus Brutus by public authority.
And of this divine and immortal glory of Marcus Brutus I will say no more, it is already embalmed in the grateful recollection of all the citizens, but it has not yet been sanctioned by any formal act of public authority.
Of those convicted, 34 were deported bypublic authority and 35 were hanged.
A few free negroes were reduced bypublic authority to private servitude, whether for terms or for life, in punishment for crime.
Songs and dances must be consecrated by public authority.
Side-note: Uncertain and mischievous action of the religious sentiment upon individuals, if not controuled by public authority.
The demand for the immediate accomplishment of their scheme by public authority is thus no accidental accessory of it merely, but is really inseparable from the ideas on which the scheme is founded.
Such a wrong is a crime; it is a matter for the direct jurisdiction of public authority.
But there was no public authority to restrain the wrongdoer, except when a particularly revolting brutality shocked public sentiment.
A mixed war is that which is carried on, on one side by public authority, and on the other by private persons.
For the prohibition of shedding blood extends not beyond the law itself, which declares, THOU SHALT NOT KILL; but passes no condemnation upon capital punishments or wars undertaken by public authority.
On a similar occasion the Carthaginians answered the Romans; "It is not the subject of inquiry whether Hannibal has besieged Saguntum, by his own private or by public authority, but whether justly or unjustly.
Hence strife is a kind of private war, because it takes place between private persons, being declared not by public authority, but rather by an inordinate will.
Repeated and multiplied hurrahs and applause with the felicitations of the president is the sanction of scandalous or ridiculous private misconduct seeking to display itself under the cover of public authority.
If logically carried out, there could be no such crime as treason, there could be no state, and no public authority.
It breaks the unity and individuality of the state, embarrasses the sovereign, and guards against the abuse of public authority by overpowering and suppressing it.
Nevertheless, if a public authority, or even a private person, sees any one evidently preparing to commit a crime, they are not bound to look on inactive until the crime is committed, but may interfere to prevent it.
There is no greater assumption of infallibility in forbidding the propagation of error, than in any other thing which is done by public authority on its own judgment and responsibility.
He has just denounced the slightest exercise of public authority as a crime; he is now going to punish as a crime the slightest resistance to public authority.
Never have citizens been more carefully guarded against the encroachments and excesses of public authority: "The law should protect public and private liberties against the oppression of those who govern.
The outcome is a community directed by a military arm seeking to perpetuate and enlarge its own role in the determination and exercise of public authority, using any means which seems likely to produce the desired results.
The monarch set up a network of public authority, regional as well as universal, provincial as well as central, and garrisoned it with professional soldiers and sailors paid by the monarch and responsible to him.
Early in their history, western nations subsidized private organizations like the Dutch East India Company and the British Hudson Bay Company and authorized them to exercise quasi-public authority.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "public authority" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
