Sentence examples for distinctive authority from inspiring English sources

Ritual function is what gives Egyptian art its distinctive authority.

I realize the Times does run those klutzy TV ads featuring ordinary people talking about the pleasure they get from reading the Sunday paper or whatever, but those are ads that just about any newspaper could run about itself, and they do very little to build on the distinctive authority that the Times has.

Consequently conscience cannot have a distinctive authority.

But importantly according to Butler, Shaftesbury erred in not recognizing that they could conflict in particular cases, and if they did conflict the distinctive authority of conscience would trump our apparent prudential motivations.

Codex documents have important roles as templates for national regulations, or as the basis for international trade agreements, and they have a distinctive authority and credibility that is derived from their painstaking development of a consensus in a multistep procedure that may take many years.

Mr. Bond struck an imposing and impressive figure, as his height and his distinctive voice gave authority and drama to his educational presentations.

'Voice' is used metaphorically (1) in writing, to identify the distinctive style and authority that a text has, for example, the EPR (2) in speech and writing, as multiple or hybrid voices, when different styles are conflated together or a dominant style is infused with a less noticed one.

It appears to be distinctive, and some authorities (cf. Tulloss) treat it as a separate species, while others (cf. Jenkins) treat it as a variety of the A. muscaria.

Mr. Kennedy is "walking, talking history," Mr. Karp said, "and there's no limit to what he can talk about with authority and distinctive personal perspective".

Thus, the despairing attitude that Hume famously expresses in the conclusion to Book One of the Treatise, as the consequence of his epistemological inquiry, while it clashes with the self-confident and optimistic attitude we associate with the Enlightenment, in fact reflects an essential possibility in a distinctive Enlightenment problematic regarding authority in belief.

The ceremony for Mr. Liu was particularly distinctive since the Chinese authorities permitted neither the recipient nor any close family members to travel to Oslo to receive the golden Nobel medal, the citation or the check for $1.5 million, so they were not handed over.