Sentence examples similar to a slight authority from inspiring English sources
Mr Santer, a past prime minister of Luxembourg, has lost all trace of the slight authority he once possessed.
Israel has been under intense international pressure to ease the blockade, and while the shipments suggested at least a slight change, Israeli authorities were still not allowing more vital construction supplies like cement to cross the border.
The prisoners aren't allowed the slightest authority as human beings — and certainly not the authority of innocence.
Speak seriously and in a slight monotone voice with authority.
The authority notes, however, that even a slight discount could hurt its bottom line.
This was despite a slight drop in the total of number of serious cases referred to the authority.
They spoke to him with the authority of people who had done this before, and also with a slight condescension; his fate, after all, was in their hands.
Pegler's brute vernacular was fuelled by a distrust of authority, but also by a lifelong sense of inferiority, probably tracing to a slight formal education.
** Pegler's brute vernacular was fuelled by a distrust of authority, but also by a lifelong sense of inferiority, probably tracing to a slight formal education.
He's a solid man, slightly wincing through a slight back injury sustained earlier in the day, and he speaks with a quiet, calm authority.
There remains a slight possibility that the Legislature could be called back in December and enact a rescue plan for the authority that included new sources of revenue.
