The phrase "authoritative description" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a description that is considered reliable, credible, or recognized as an official source of information.
Example: "The report provided an authoritative description of the new regulations that all businesses must follow."
Alternatives: "definitive account" or "official explanation".
In 1877 German botanist Ferdinand Cohn provided an authoritative description of two different forms of hay bacillus (now known as Bacillus subtilis): one that could be killed upon exposure to heat and one that was resistant to heat.
The national report (Smith et al. 2009) is considered the authoritative description of the US forestry sector.
The authoritative description of intelligent design, however, explicitly states that the Universe displays features of having been designed.
Neither the ACP journal web pages nor the articles providing an authoritative description of the ACP open peer review (Pöschl, 2004 & 2012) have ever indicated that the papers posted in the ACP discussion forum, ACPD, would not be "published".
To help facilitate the authoritative description of genes in the context of high-density oligonucleotide microarray (GeneChip) expression data relevant for sexual reproduction and the mitotic cell cycle across different species, we have initially developed an elaborate submission and curation system for community annotation (11 13).
His four slim books on the principal pathways of Yoga -- karma (selfless action), bhakti (devotion), jnana (intellectual discernment), and raja (meditation and spiritual practice) -- became the authoritative descriptions of those categories, and to a large extent they remain so in today's yoga-saturated world because they set the tone for much of the subsequent commentary on the subject.
On the whole, therefore, against the criteria of Box 2 many of these articles present only weakly persuasive and authoritative descriptions or arguments.
In research extending Baumrind's classical descriptions of parenting styles [ 25], children of parents who demonstrate controlling, restrictive behaviours exhibit less healthy dietary behaviours and are at increased risk of obesity versus children of parents who demonstrate more supportive, authoritative practices [ 26- 30].
Most of the time this doesn't matter – he is compelling and authoritative company, switching expertly between description, deep historical perspective, and telling socioeconomic statistics.
The processing descriptions must also include authoritative references to established methods of computation.
So when a man wears a suit, he is simply adopting the standard uniform of a conventional authoritative masculinity, as Grayson Perry recently noted in his description of the great white male.
