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authority figure

n. someone who is regarded as an authority by someone else

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The answers to both of these question he, once again, in the Piemen's religious beliefs and how they interpreted the world around them From what is understood of the Zensunm Wanderers, it can be sur mised that their religion was severe in the extreme It demanded close obedience to an authority figure who must have literally had the power of life and death over his subjects Such authority does not appear to have been lightly earned A leader called Nalb, had to conform closely to his followers' notion of what a leader should be Tats, while he had the power of an absolute ruler, a Naib could easily be challenged by any of his subjects if his behavior seemed at aB inappropriate Moreover, from the records left by Pardot Kynes, such challenges seem to have been frequent Thus the Fremen held a .

The hardest thing for a man with dominance genes and piratical heredity like me is to avoid becoming a goddam authority figure.

The intelligence officers own relatively junior rank made him a logical mentor for the ensign, senior enough to be an authority figure, yet junior enough not to be frightening, and Mayhew seemed to have slipped naturally into the role.

It accurately pinpointed her lifelong lack of a sense of roots, of belonging, and suggested she had a strong need for a father or authority figure.

And maybe that fear of failure has its roots in the female authority figure.

I compare their altered postures to those of the original occupants of the room toward the Zhirrzh whose tonal pattern I copied and whom I presumed to be an authority figure.

But in his deepest soul, Yanagisawa hated Tsunayoshi as an authority figure who dominated him as Lord Takei had.

Out of the blue, I am once again confronted by an Authority Figure.