Sentence examples for authority mostly from inspiring English sources
Gen. Abdul Rahman Rahimi, was a Pashtun; the fact that the vast majority of his men were Andarabi Tajiks rendered him largely ineffectual, his authority mostly nominal.
If nothing else, "Undercover Boss" is a reminder that in bad times, people are less eager to confront or provoke authority; mostly they wish for small favors and the big, serendipitous strokes of luck.
She explains that she was very unhappy about the role as a pinup queen that Howard Hughes (to whom she was under a thirty-year contract) imposed on her, with the five years of five-day-a-week publicity touring that she did in the forties, and with the movies she did at RKO under his authority, mostly with Robert Mitchum.
While in the U.S. this week, Suu Kyi is being applauded as a Nobel Peace Laureate and champion of the oppressed, her authority, mostly moral and political, but non-military, remains fragile at best.
The bus companies and the authorities mostly tolerated it.
Except for the ghastly mess in Chechnya, the authorities mostly work by softer methods.
Mr. Frieder remained passionate about bridges even after the Sept. 11 attacks, when the authorities mostly stopped letting him go up.
From the colonial era to today, for example, the government of the C.A.R. has lived off kickbacks while leaving rural authorities mostly to their own devices.
The case was pursued by federal authorities mostly because Sever also lied about being a citizen when he filled out federal forms and bought several firearms between 2007 and 2010 at a Hialeah store.
Reporting of individual cases of suspected adverse drug reactions (ADRs) to regulatory authorities, mostly by physicians or other healthcare professionals, remains the cornerstone of pharmacovigilance.
> Pharmacovigilance systems rely on spontaneous adverse event (AE) reports received by regulatory authorities, mostly after passing through third-party gatekeepers (biopharmaceutical industry, lawyers, clinicians, and pharmacists), generating possible bottlenecks where information may be lost or misinterpreted.
