"The Canterbury Tales" is crammed with the rhetorical devices — occupatio, metonymy, the citing of scores of authorities — that were a pillar of education in the late Middle Ages.
Managers cited lack of authority and poor knowledge and skills in human resource management.
I cite as authority the title of a 1934 novel by that great master of English prose, PG Wodehouse: Right Ho, Jeeves.
Some of the signs cite the authority of the Central Park Conservancy, the private organization that manages the park.
The State Department statement cited Israeli authorities' retroactive authorization of nearby settlements and the redrawing of local settlement boundaries.
I'll cite the authority of Jimmie Lunceford: "T'ain't What You Do (It's The Way That Cha Do It)." By Jelani Cobb By David Remnick By Kelefa Sanneh By Sam Knight.
I'll cite the authority of Jimmie Lunceford: "T'ain't What You Do (It's The Way That Cha Do It)." In his review of "Nine," in the magazine this week, Anthony Lane asks two crucial questions: "[W]ho wants to make, or watch, a major Hollywood movie about mental block?" How about, respectively, RKO and lots of our ancestors?
The treatise cites a range of authorities from Classical antiquity, Scripture, the Fathers of the Church, political philosophers of the early modern era, and Reformation theologians, all of whom support such extreme but just, according to Milton measures to punish tyrants.
The plea agreement she signed, in 2011, to try to put the legal saga behind her is now being cited by authorities as an admission of guilt.
Suicide by asphyxiation was cited by authorities as the likely cause of death; the actor, 63, hanged himself with a belt, authorities said Tuesday.
But it is precisely this citing of the norm as authoritative which confers authority upon the norm (1993, 13).
