A public realm devoid of religious authority may be the price of living in a modern democracy.
Her gravelly voice, with its uniquely Midwestern combination of flatness and warmth, comes across devoid of the authority associated with reviewers.
As such, Washington and its European allies took great comfort in the endorsement of the Arab League — an organization uniquely devoid of moral authority or military capability.
In the free responses (Table S1), most physicians expressed safety concerns about the drug even though we had clearly indicated that the drug was safe, approved by regulatory authorities, and devoid of significant side effects.
Obviously, this slanted coverage diminishes authority in a sector that has been largely devoid of women in leadership.
What Mr. Washington now deserves is his good name back, devoid of further asterisks put next to it by brazenly inept criminal authorities.
Mainly Ceefax was that vanished thing, a voice of quiet authority: entirely straight, irreproachably trustworthy, even its name – "see facts" – devoid of all frippery.
"International society" theorists, or the "English school," argue that although there is no central overriding authority above sovereign states, their relations are not wholly lawless or devoid of authoritative and enforceable norms and rules for conduct.
