Sentence examples for an authoritative one from inspiring English sources

Here the quoting or citing of material from another text has attitudinal potential when, for example, the quoted source is an authoritative one or is favoured in some way (what Tann 2010: 5.2 terms a 'scripture') or when it is assumed the quoted beliefs or observations will inevitably be regarded as untoward in some way (speakers 'damned out of their own mouths').

National registries are only one source, but mostly an authoritative one, of policy information.

We cannot continue to paint this region with broad strokes of rhetoric akin to re-runs of Three's Company: massive amounts of chaos and confusion (Jack), interjected with a few sleazy references to women (Larry), some emotional blackmail (oh-so-cute-Chrissy), and a smart alec quote (Janet), followed by a hollow, yet authoritative one by a General (Mr. Furley).

There is an ambiguity here: is an authoritative person one who is speaking the truth with respect to the particular utterance in question, or one who is generally truthful?

His debate performances tend toward the erratic, authoritative one moment, defensive and diffident the next.

Take, for example (from the 1910 translation by Lionel Giles, the first authoritative one in English): "The best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good"; "all warfare is based on deception"; and "it is the business of the general to be still and inscrutable, to be upright and impartial".

It seems that the general delivery in type 1 projects a paternalistic approach where the doctor presents his/her interpretation of the results as the authoritative one, without any specific reference to further details of the findings.

He got to his first 50 with a handful of fortunate shots and a couple of authoritative ones.

And he suggests a reason why it doesn't: that Google has changed its algorithm to reward popular results over authoritative ones.

But the Amazon catalogues are much less reliable than properly bibliophilic ones and he hopes to supplement these with the British Library's system and other, equally authoritative ones.

More often, Smith is partnered with white men, usually older, grumpier, more authoritative ones who co-opt him into the status quo.