Sentence examples for blunt authority from inspiring English sources

"With careful concealment and blunt authority, I was able to hide my fraud from others at P.F.G.," he wrote in his suicide note.

Broader enterprises with more heterogeneous stakeholders and less clear lines of authority require leaders who understand, respect, and provide support for the many and various component parts and who understand, and feel comfortable using, influence rather than blunt authority.

I used to rage against this fact and deny it, but it has itself the blunt weighty authority of truth.

She died of blunt force trauma, authorities said.

NextWave's moves included an audacious effort to use the bankruptcy proceeding to blunt the F.C.C.'s authority, as well as personal pleas by executives and investors to President Bill Clinton to intervene on the company's behalf.

Despite the communications between Mr. Sharpton and Mr. Blunt's family, the authorities said on Monday that they did not know the whereabouts of either escapee.

Still, apparently in an effort to blunt Western criticism, the authorities have granted Ms. Tymoshenko permission to receive medical treatment outside of the prison camp about 300 miles east of the capital, Kiev, where she has been imprisoned since December.

South Korean officials reckon the North is short of about 1.3m tonnes of grain.Political analysts are trying to work out what else is behind this unusually blunt warning from the authorities in Pyongyang.

Savage, 22, was transported to the hospital with severe head and upper-body injuries, including stab wounds and blunt-force trauma, authorities said.

The Palestinian Authority was equally blunt.

During the Bush years, he decried the country's loss of moral authority; in a blunt essay for Washington Monthly last year, he declared that Americans had been transformed "from champions of human dignity and individual rights into a nation of armchair torturers".