Sentence examples for bestowed authority. from inspiring English sources

Of equal importance was the publisher's imprimatur, which bestowed authority on the publication and its author.

Eventually the popes assumed civil authority in Christendom (according to the false Donation of Constantine, the first Christian emperor actually bestowed authority over the Western Empire to the pope).

They argue that leaders attempt to control the lives of adherents by claiming divinely bestowed authority.

"It bestows authority and validates people's experience".

Moreover, as Cuoco co-opted Italian scholarship to bestow authority on his vision, a new relationship between classical scholars and national past emerged: scholars study, shape and preserve the nation's antiquity, but become at the same time, to an extent, themselves cultural patrimony.

In practice, though, most U.S. bishops have already bestowed such authority to priests.

It is a bestowed moral authority that gives the right to organise and direct the efforts of others.

But popularity does not bestow authority.

But age and fame do more than sell tickets; they also bestow authority, the belief that one can stand up there all alone — unsupported, unrelieved — and tell the audience something serious.

I am not that bothered about the press card stuck in the brim, or the cigarette hanging out of the side of the mouth, but the hat I think bestows authority.

As Section 6 of Republic Act 8791 defines, only the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) bestows authority for an institution or individual to conduct banking functions, these institutions must forward the mandate of the Central Bank to support price and monetary stability, along with peso exchangeability.