Sentence examples for endowed with authority from inspiring English sources

Unlike an association, a social movement does not possess legitimate leaders in the sense of being endowed with authority through some formal process.

Bodies endowed with authority provide or choose new place-names if there is a need to create them on a greater scale e.g., the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.

With the accession of the Protestant Elizabeth, Knox's trumpet was quickly muted, but there remained a widespread conviction, reinforced by both custom and teaching, that, while men were naturally endowed with authority, women were temperamentally, intellectually, and morally unfit to govern.

In fact, that's how Fannie Mae got started, back in 1938: originally, it was a government agency endowed with the authority to buy mortgages, in the hope that this would expand the supply of credit to homeowners.

Housed within the Department of the Interior and endowed with enforcement authority over all aspects of drilling safety offshore, the new agency would include a Leasing and Environmental Science Office that would oversee "environmentally responsible and efficient" development of the outer continental shelf.

These lyrics have become endowed with great authority with the passage of time.

It claims to be endowed with state authority to achieve this exclusion.

These principles are as endowed with the authority of the Constitution as are the words on the parchment.

He writes, "You know now, if you did not before, that the police departments of your country have been endowed with the authority to destroy your body".

And you know now, if you did not know before, that the police departments of your country have been endowed with the authority to destroy your body.

Both use-by and best-before dates have been endowed with an authority and a legitimacy that they do not deserve, and allow food manufacturers and supermarkets to play around with the concepts of freshness and safety.