Sentence examples for are authority from inspiring English sources
noun
The power to enforce rules or give orders.
- I have the authority to penalise the staff in my department, but not the authority to sack them.
Two of Cialdini's principles are "authority" and "social proof". Authority creates a path set by experts that others will follow.
Police interrogators are authority figures with a vengeance.
Bird and Parcells are authority figures within their leagues.
Only now are authority officials working to draft rules for private security companies.
When people Hunt has worked with in the theatre or in the movies talk about her, the words that come up most often are "authority" & "intelligence".
"If you've been in an environment where teachers are authority figures with no contact outside the class, and you were one of 50 students, when you come to Harvard, you're going to behave the same.
According to Eliot Turiel et al. young children across several cultures readily make this distinction between requirements that are authority-dependent and those that are not, allowing for resistance to and rejection of the former.
There are authorities who share this view.
