The phrase "authority depicts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how an authority figure or source represents or illustrates a particular idea, concept, or situation.
Example: "In her report, the authority depicts the challenges faced by the community in adapting to climate change."
Alternatives: "authority illustrates" or "authority represents".
But while Western and local officials cite the militants' growing links to terrorist organizations in the region — presenting the ties as a reason behind the group's increasingly deadly tactics and a cause for global concern — Boko Haram is not the imported, "foreign" menace Nigerian authorities depict it to be.
In the latest charges to be brought against Wall Street financiers, Federal authorities depict insider trading in dramatic detail.
"Girls" on HBO has attracted attention for its frank depiction of sex, and Lena Dunham's role as a show runner gives her rare authority to depict sexuality from a woman's perspective.
Condo, a lapsed Catholic who grew up attending Mass and going to confession, told me that he greatly values "the opportunity as an artist to destroy authority by depicting it in your own terms," but his Crucifixion paintings are strangely respectful.
But newspapers have come under pressure from the authorities to depict demonstrators as "saboteurs".
The authorities are depicting him completely upside down, they have silenced the family by threatening not to hand over his body," the family member said.
At the CIA and the Justice Department, authorities routinely depicted Jeffrey Sterling as a "disgruntled" employee.
By the same token, the film's token authority figures are depicted as decent, well-meaning professionals, even if they are the tools of corrupt and corroded industrial culture.
As much as her novels traffic in Mr. Black's sins — living large and cheating on two wives while presenting himself as the symbol of moral authority — they also depict in knowledgeable and even tender ways black Christianity's deep sense of community and a fabric of meaningful ritual.
Caesar Photos: Inside Syrian Authorities' Prisons, which depicts torture and atrocities committed by the regime of Bashar al-Assad during the civil war, will be displayed in a busy corner of the UN building in New York.. Though some details are blurred, the photographs show death in stark reality: women and children – though mostly men – tortured, starved, dead.
