Sentence examples for as authority for from inspiring English sources

She could quote Robertson as authority for scrapping it altogether.

Differently shaped sceptres were used for the ranks of the nobility and as authority for mobilizing troops, settling disputes, declaring peace, and so on.

As authority for this gambit, he has cited a "political will" that Bhutto composed on October 16th, the day she wrote to Musharraf naming her potential murderers.

Later references to the resolutions as authority for the theories of nullification and secession were inconsistent with the limited goals sought by Jefferson and Madison in drafting their protests.

Although this section was not invoked in the exclusion of the daughters of Louis X, Philip V, and Charles IV from the throne, it took on critical importance under the later Valois (16th century), when it was incorrectly cited as authority for the existing assumption that women should not succeed to the crown.

He praises Augustine as the theologian who best understood and explicated this claim, and as authority for the view that "the new papal sin, of deception, is worse than the vivider old sins of material greed, proud ambition or sexual license.

The health sector has to be prepared for new challenges from climate change and need to broaden their ability to work with different sectors in society such as authorities for emergency and crisis management, municipalities, employers and workers organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and others.

In botany, the author abbreviation used to indicate Linnaeus as the authority for species' names is L. In older publications, sometimes the abbreviation "Linn".

To accept him as an authority would be like accepting me as an authority for the authenticity of Ellen G. White's visions, on the basis of allusions drawn from Seventh-day Adventist literature.

I can, for example, take you as my authority for the truths of physics or for the utility of railways.

As the case wends toward the Supreme Court, he can no longer cite the president as current authority for that contention.