Nonetheless, the authority structure within the church remained officially monarchical.

The strength of the evangelical movement's organization determined its ability to mobilize power outside the conventional authority structure.

The authority structures they rely on have let them down.

The tribe has a strong central authority structure and a long-established royal lineage.

Social democracy spent decades smashing up the old authority structures, among them God and the traditional family, in order to take over their authority.

As a result, there is some sense of the place as a collective enterprise, even though there's a clear authority structure.

It has become an important foundation for the persistence of the existing authority structure centered on the father and the son.

A religious order is characterized by an authority structure where a superior general has jurisdiction over the order's dependent communities.

States had built authority structures upon a principle of territorialism.

Olson realized that for him to bring cures to the people would undermine the traditional authority structure in their culture.