Sentence examples for brief authority from inspiring English sources

Bringing to mind Shakespeare's "Dress'd in a little, brief authority".

" 'Dress'd in a little brief authority,' are we?" I asked.

"But man, proud man, / Dressed in a little brief authority, / Most ignorant of what he's most assured,/ His glassy essence, like an angry ape / Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven / As makes the angels weep".

Firefighters battling home-threatening wildfires in the West caught a break overnight as gusty winds died down but with the region bracing for sweltering heat, Saturday's respite could be brief, authorities said.

He is a tough and articulate though rather charmless advocate, who is capable of mastering any brief with authority.

Four serving members of the Sri Lankan navy, including a commander who had briefed Australian authorities on anti-smuggling measures, have been arrested and charged with people-smuggling.

Mr. Fleischer explained that the company had briefed data authorities across the European Union before the announcement and that at "no stage did any E.U. regulator suggest that any sort of pause would be appropriate".

5 38 p.m.: This post has been updated with information from an afternoon briefing by authorities.

Two poll-clerks (Catherine Tate and Nina Sosanya) squat behind a desk while the presiding officer (a wonderfully twitchy Mark Gatiss, relishing his brief moment of authority) ensures the electoral rules are obeyed.

Tahrir remained a self-contained world: as the days passed, and the older generation continued to leave the square alone, it resembled a place where the young, the poor, and the uneducated could get a brief taste of authority before they joined the rest of the country in wherever it was going.

At a brief news conference, authorities stressed they had reacted as if the hijacker "represented the highest possible danger".