Sentence examples for authorities thought from inspiring English sources

It was about whether the authorities thought dredging was a good idea.

The British authorities thought it was enough.

"Some authorities thought he possessed a rich vein of information about his former employer.

"The authorities thought if it made that one legal all the others would come off air.

The authorities thought, given his drinking, it would be safer for him to deal with ships.

"Maybe Soviet authorities thought people did not understand German," he said.

But if the authorities thought they could quell public cynicism with newfound openness, they were disappointed.

At the time, the authorities thought they might be smuggling weapons.

"The authorities thought they could control and manipulate nationalist groups; but they quickly get out of control," Ms Kozhevnikova suggests.

The authorities thought they could stop this revolution called the 60s by picking off the main singer-songwriters.

But the authorities thought the informant's admission was a lie, and a polygraph test confirmed their suspicions.