The phrase "authoritative members" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to individuals within a group or organization who have the power or right to make decisions or enforce rules.
Example: "The authoritative members of the committee will decide on the final proposal during the meeting."
Alternatives: "leading members" or "senior members".
It may become less lively (in the sense of being a real interaction), leave room to less dissent in the presence of an authoritative member, and favor the more shallow types of arguments, no matter how rational and public they are.
The GP, an authoritative member of the panel, had made a strong case for this patient to be treated as exceptional in the same way as the policy treats cancer patients as exceptional.
The Political Bureau's Standing Committee of about six to nine of its most-authoritative members is the highest echelon of leadership in the CCP and in the country as a whole.
Experts from the faculty, graduate students, and authoritative community members should present opposing perspectives.
Hugo Grotius is probably the most comprehensive and formidable classical member of the tradition; James T. Johnson is the authoritative historian of this tradition; and many recognize Michael Walzer as the dean of contemporary just war theorists.
Except for some minor suspicions that some technical wool is pulled over our eyes, we would say that this has the appearance and the ring of a documentary film.And so are the human emotions inspired by such crisis revealed in a sure and authoritative fashion by members of the cast.
He is "as it were a standard and measure" in the sense that his views should be regarded as authoritative by other members of the community.
It can also happen in an authoritative culture, where members of the leadership lack the confidence to set new ideas front and center.
It decidedly did to the European Commission's authoritative international 16-member scientific committee.
