To go back to Dennis slavering at the altar, Lodge's apologia pro vita sua is brimful of this kind of thing: authoritative little interventions in which he hastens to assure us that while an episode in one of his novels is taken entirely from the life, the reality drawn on in another is twisted irrevocably out of kilter.
Likewise, studies have found that salt-water injections can be a more effective placebo treatment than white sugar pills - not, I might add, because there is anything particularly useful about salt water injections, but because the ceremony of performing an injection is a far more invasive, authoritative and dramatic intervention.
Second, the case has shocked us into recognition of just how manipulative and deceitful some parents can be, and that a more authoritative model of social work intervention is needed.
Yet public health is embedded within the main mechanisms of biopower: a tendency to create and consolidate truth discourses and their authoritative figures; a commitment to intervention; the use of technologies for attaining specific forms of subjectification (Rabinow and Rose 2006).
As the child's grandmother is an authoritative source of information about parenting, interventions focussed on improving newborn care could target grandmothers as well as midwives.
Psychological interventions are recommended as first-line treatment by the most authoritative international guidelines but few evidences are available on their efficacy and effectiveness for mild depression.
Numerous authoritative reports have identified environmental and policy interventions as the most promising strategies for creating population-wide improvements in diet, physical activity, and obesity.
Intervention is choreographed by a single authoritative figure prepared to stay five weeks for peace.
6. (S/NF) A/U/S Rood's intervention has allowed us to obtain authoritative, albeit belated, guidance on HMG's requirements for DOD flight clearances.
Just as Ed Miliband was establishing an authoritative voice through the phone-hacking scandal, these interventions are a timely reminder of just how much work he has to do.
