Sentence examples for authority derived from inspiring English sources

Their authority derived from technocratic virtuosity.

A great deal of Likhachev's authority derived from his biography.

The authority derived from the League of Nations, not the United Nations.

His peculiar authority derived from his own participation in this century's despair.

Yet De Palma films from a position of authority derived from the authority of the filmmakers he studied and the styles he inherited.

Last year, Congress wrote a new statute codifying a definition of the scope of detention authority derived from the Guantánamo litigation.

Ultimately the claim is that this authority derives from God.

He is an authority figure whose authority derives from his strategic willingness to deconstruct that authority.

The agency's authority derives from a 2005 energy law that sets some of the most important ethanol quotas.

And swings in the housing market would play a big role, since the authority derives much of its revenue from taxes on real estate transactions.

Mr. Cheney has said that a vice president's authority derives solely from the Constitution and his relationship with the president.