Children want to please adults, and if an adult tells them something is good for them, especially if an authority figure tells them, they are extremely unlikely to disagree.
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How much easier the contest would be if some widely watched, widely respected authority figure offered his public judgment on the faces in the photographs, telling readers whom he deemed the prettiest.
Bonny took a few strides to the stranger, to put herself in front of the lamps where she could be seen and appreciated as an authority figure with a weapon in her hands.
But I think probably more importantly, it's the abstract idea of an ultimate authority figure, and to date I think we haven't changed out perception of that person from male to female, or without gender.
It was through that T1 line that the author became acquainted with Real World reject turned publishing mogul Dave Eggers, on whose Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency Hodgman's deranged authority figure would first begin to take shape.
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"I would suspect that it's because of his position as a sort of an avuncular authority figure, your old Uncle Ted, who's sort of a gruff guy who cares about you, but he doesn't wear his heart on his sleeve about it, " Mitchell said.
Mr Danto, a jolly, bearded man with a self-deflating sense of humour and an old-fashioned taste in clothes, is the last sort of person you would think of as an authority-figure in the world of contemporary art.
These uncomfortable realities are perfectly illustrated in the newly released movie Compliance , which tells the chilling story of just how far ordinary people will go to obey a figure of authority.
According to the report, four out of six council departments bettered this target but the high sick leave in social services resulted in an overall sickness absence figure for the authority of 12.9 days.
Both leaders, the senior-most Republican in the land, third in line, okay, a powerful figure with great authority, sat in a room with the President of the United States and worked out a detailed compromise.
Last year the authority identified 50 potential victims with that figure increasing to 58 this year.
At the very moment that the players most needed the coach to transmit quiet authority they got the opposite - an uptight figure whose palpable tension affected his tactical judgement and made the task of the team all the harder.
The authority's planning advisory panel said such a figure would help restrict "out-of-control development" and give communities "breathing space".
He is but a man who, through a combination of ambition, talent, character and luck, became the central figure in the left's crisis of authority.
As for Schapiro, she is a well-known figure on Wall Street who now heads the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority which oversees securities firms.
The authority announced in January that it would need to cut jobs, eventually achieving a figure of 311.
On either side of the Supreme Court steps, on top of fifty-ton marble blocks, sits a sculpted figure: the Contemplation of Justice, on the left, and the Authority of Law, on the right.
The telecoms ministry is currently seeking clarification on some of the proposals from regulator the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), which recommended the new auction prices start at more than ten times the figure carriers paid in 2008.
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