Recently the sporting world brought us two examples of authority figures making the wrong call.
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Most abuse occurs at the hands of trusted family and friends and authority figures.
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The trainer we went with was the very embodiment of dog authority figures.
When it comes from elected officials, vaulted executives or authority figures, a simple word choice can make all the difference.
South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue has never met its own time target for responding to emergencies, according to fire authority figures.
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Since people tend to avoid confrontation, especially with authority figures, passive resistance is more common in organizations than most of us realize.
Yes, even bosses and authority figures sometimes make the wrong call.
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The camp also changes the way children interact with authority figures.
With some frequency, authority figures are dragging their feet or failing to take action when a fellow child athlete, or athletes, abuses a teammate, or teammates.
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Simon Fanshawe, author of The Done Thing, a book about modern manners, says the idea will only be embraced outside times of crisis if there are authority figures organising it.
Mr. COLE: Well, the first thing to say is that the differences are not great, but they do have to do with early authority figures and how you viewed them.
Think of the wonderfully sinister suits Michael Fish designed for the adult authority figures of A Clockwork Orange, the sideways-in-reverse noir retro of Blade Runner or the Gaultier of The Fifth Element.
Kids pay attention to men like John Thompson III, not just because of their coaching savvy and because they're huge and intimidating and can cut them from the team, but because they dress like authority figures.
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After a briefing of US officials by Israeli intelligence on Wednesday, an unnamed source in Washington quoted by Reuters said the "case is very compelling" that senior Palestinian authority figures, including President Yasser Arafat, were involved in the shipment.
In a speech on Tuesday, Mr Gove said more male teachers were needed, especially in primary schools "to provide children who often lack male role models at home with male authority figures who can display both strength and sensitivity".
As we peel the onion, they discover that these problems often stem from harsh dealings they experienced as children at the hand of their fathers (and mothers), and an overall lack of support and encouragement from authority figures in their younger years.
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At the climax of the 1980 movie "The Blues Brothers, " hundreds of gun-toting police officers, state troopers and other riotous authority figures scramble after John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as they calmly ride a Chicago City Hall elevator while being soothed by a piped-in instrumental version.
However, the South West Peninsula Health Authority said those figures had already been brought down and the waiting time should be under nine months by March.
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The authority hopes the latest figures could be a sign that those moves are starting to have an effect.
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The authority's latest figures show its workforce fell from 19, 958 in September 2010 to 16, 114 over 18 months - a fall of 3, 844.
Mr Panton believes one reason why exasperated students have had to take matters into their own hands is because figures of authority have been unwilling publicly and robustly to defend animal research.
It is not easy to do, but one thing we do know is that the people who have authority in those communities, doctors, teachers, need to be figures who can credibly exercise authority.
Figures released by the authority show there has been a 41% drop in accidents in which people have been injured.
The British (and the State Department) replied that these people would not necessarily have a following inside Iraq, and argued that legitimacy would best come by promoting local figures to the interim authority.
But Clive Wolfendale told the police authority's performance review committee the figures concealed an "incredible" success when it came to targeting bigger, organised networks.
He pointed to figures from the NHS litigation authority which showed that 82% of cases in 2010-11, where the funding method was known, were paid for by "means other than legal aid".
The figures from the Civil Aviation Authority and the Department for Transport revealed that alcohol consumption and smoking were the main factors in nearly 63% of reported incidents, and 78% of cases involved male passengers.
Its figures show the Conservative-run authority employed 9, 997 people in April 2009, and this will have dropped to 5, 365 by April 2013.
BBC: Suffolk County Council workforce almost halved since 2009
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