6 sentences with 'authority'
Example sentences and phrases with the word authority and other words derived from it.
• « -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. »
• « 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. »
• « 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. »
• « 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. »
• « 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. »