Sentence examples for earned authority from inspiring English sources
By refusing them, he earned authority and respect.
His wide-rangingly cynical satire was aimed in particular at the pompous bourgeoisie, its assumptions of earned authority and hypocrisy of public honors.
And mainstream news outlets, which Mr. Siegel is otherwise delighted to assail (his love-hate relationship with The New York Times is particularly intense), suddenly look worthwhile to him by virtue of their real, earned authority.
Twitter Lists impact not only influence, but also create an opportunity for a new layer of earned authority.
Rather, he remains as much like the rest of us as possible, and he uses his earned authority to humbly bring the competition up to his level.
Yet it takes more than physical imitation to earn authority.
The way to earn authority is, very often, to say that something is going to happen before it does.
She believes that she has earned that authority by putting the most effort into it.
Today, the weight bears down harder when the few are corrupt or fail to deliver on the promises that earned them authority in the first place.
From that lowly state, the court has earned considerable authority, but it has also forfeited legitimacy with bad decisions, some so bad they were "ignored or disobeyed".
Suddenly, you feel as if you have earned the authority to pontificate, to deliver the grand and definitive statement about contemporary literary culture.
