6 sentences with “authority”

I don't doubt that she learned a few things from her intern teacher, about texts in the humanities, texts on which, by the way, I was no authority.

I believe that each nation will have to cede a part of its sovereignty to a "higher authority", perhaps under the auspices of the United Nations, to confront, monitor and police ecological problems.

The Uruk economy was what historians call "redistributive", in which a central authority has the right to control all economic activity, essentially taxing it and then redistributing it as that authority sees fit.

Treholt was already an advisor to the Norwegian Foreign Policy Institute. This made his lunches with Titov more enjoyable; he had some authority to talk about Vietnam, Greece, journalism, NATO, peace and friendship.

-Mrs. Korda," he said, his voice affable but full of authority, "I have a protocol for wives in this hospital: they must be back at their hotel by 7 p.m., and a staff member will telephone them if there is a serious problem.

Some historians have argued that one of the main causes of the collapse of royal authority was the rise in power of the nobility: in other words, royal authority did not collapse first and lead to elites taking more power, the elites took power and thus weakened royal authority.