Authority has 4 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
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| 1. | Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or engineer. For such or such special knowledge I apply to such or such a savant. But I allow neither the bootmaker nor the architect nor the savant to impose his authority upon me. I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure. | |
| 2. | The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could not be worse violence than that of authority under existing conditions. | |
| 3. | If I bow before the authority of the specialists and avow my readiness to follow, to a certain extent and as long as may seem to me necessary, their indications and even their directions, it is because their authority is imposed upon me by no one, neither by men nor by God. Otherwise I would repel them with horror, and bid the devil take their counsels, their directions, and their services, certain that they would make me pay, by the loss of my liberty and self-respect, for such scraps of truth, wrapped in a multitude of lies, as they might give me. | |
| 4. | Teachers shouldn't fall back on their authority. | |
| 5. | The students revolted against authority. | |
| 6. | By what authority do you order me to do this? | |
| 7. | Only after a century and a half of confusion was the royal authority restored. | |
| 8. | Ritsuko is something of an authority on the subject. | |
| 9. | Napoleon was a man of authority. | |
| 10. | The teacher has no authority with his students. |