#authorities

So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused. ↗

— Anna Louise Strong

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What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#association #authorities #become #fact #founded

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. ↗

— Voltaire

#dangerous #established #matters #right #which

Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make. ↗

— Kate Adie

#being #coverage #illustration #live #make

There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#collecting #concerned #i #information #know

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities. ↗

— Timothy West

#authorities #back #buy #council #derelict

We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification. ↗

— Cofer Black

#authorities #communicated #covert #law #memorandum

Foreign nationals entering the United States illegally who are taken into custody by the Border Protection Corps or by State or local law enforcement authorities must be promptly delivered to a federal law enforcement authority. ↗

— John Culberson

#authority #border #corps #custody #delivered

This is not the first time that Mexican authorities have handed over an Arab from a country with known Al Qaeda connections to a local sheriff across the border. FBI picks them up and disappears. ↗

— John Culberson

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