Sentence examples for authority someone from inspiring English sources

At a time when Latin America lacks a popular unifying figure, Pope Francis has emerged as a leader with broad authority, someone who cuts across all the usual boundary lines.

Last week, he told a photographer who was perhaps excessively perfectionist to "just take the fucking picture!" This is the ultimate abuse of authority: someone powerful by virtue of birth abusing someone who holds their position by virtue of ability, knowing they can't respond.

It doesn't require an extensive exploration of the difference between Islamic and Christian semiotics to grasp that if many Muslims seem to take personally degrading images of the Prophet it is because he is an exemplar of noble humanity to them rather than a distant figure of stern authority – someone whose smallest act is worthy of emulation.

sock (also socko) -- very good (usually refers to box office performance); " 'My Best Friend's Wedding' has done socko B.O". (See also: boff, whammo) solon -- an authority; someone in the know; from the ancient Greek wise man, Solon; "Solons say the deal is likely to go down by the end of the week".

A cosmopolitan was someone who was not subservient to a particular religious or political authority, someone who was not biased by particular loyalties or cultural prejudice.

"Where are the authorities?" someone cried out.

The guides, developed with the American Bar Association's Commission on Law and Aging, offer advice for those given authority over someone's finances.

But he speaks with the calm authority of someone who has generations of gore under his fingernails.

The No. 5 seed, Sharapova did not play with the authority of someone who had not dropped a set before the final.

How that is done, and who gets authority over someone else's fate, can embroil families and friends in intractable disputes that sometimes end up in court.

Presiding over this most unusual restaurant is Sgr Mimmo, who exudes the authority of someone who knows his premises are much in demand.