Sentence examples for be authority from inspiring English sources
noun
The power to enforce rules or give orders.
- I have the authority to penalise the staff in my department, but not the authority to sack them.
Parents, faced with the daunting task of raising kind human beings, must set rules, say "no" and be authority figures.
Mr. Goetz should be authority on tempting temperamental people.
We hold Buckley to be authority for comparable state regulation, which need not be pegged to Buckley's dollars.
The housing authority interviewed 90 applicants from the city's five boroughs and required that at least 51 percent of them be authority tenants.
Another difference, experts say, is that parents of the baby boom generation are less likely to be authority figures for children and more likely to be their friends.
'Politeness' bars sharply worded disagreement by dissenters against those who claim to be authority, but doesn't usually bar dismissive or patronizing arguments by authority against the dissenters".
This may be because high NFCC persons, known to be authority-driven [ 12, 13], could view some medical specializations as less knowledgeable than others and hence consult less with those medical specialties.
"This is authority that nobody has today".
