The phrase "authority of ideas" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the credibility or influence that certain ideas or concepts hold in a discussion or argument.
Example: "In the debate about climate change, the authority of ideas presented by leading scientists cannot be overlooked."
Alternatives: "credibility of concepts" or "influence of thoughts".
New machines killed more people more quickly, and the authority of ideas, warped and misused by fanatics, gave the killers more absolute reasons for doing it.
It explains why, to quote Mr Summers, "the authority of ideas, rather than the idea of authority, reigns supreme" at universities.
The game's authorities were full of ideas: at one point, as negotiations to stop a Super League rumbled on, the Super Cup was very nearly replaced by the British Cup, a competition for clubs in England and Scotland, but that never came to pass.
In a secular humanist tradition, with no appeal to the external moral authority of a god, his ideas strike at the foundation of conventional morality, namely that one sometimes does good even if one does not want to, and can be blamed for a failure to do so.
France will also press for the return of some sort of international weapons inspection arrangement under the authority of the United Nations, an idea that Washington has already rejected.
It seeks to probe the interior life of a pioneering theologian who challenged the authority of the papacy and forged ideas about conscience and freedom that are still widely held to have set in motion transformations that shaped the modern world.
The most demanding notion of authority is the idea of a political authority that has a right to rule that correlates with a duty to obey that is owed to the authority and that is a content independent and preemptive duty.
One other concept emerged about this time that helped to set the seal on Henry's authority: the idea of sovereignty, as expounded by Jean Bodin.
This defence of the authority of nomos rests on the idea that nomos itself, in the sense of legal and moral convention, arises from phusis.
Nevertheless, it was enough to fill the news with talk of Johnson issuing a challenge to the authority of May and keeping the idea of a face-off rolling dutifully along.
No belief or source of ideas is immune, regardless of its origin, authority, or emotional power.
