Every year the authoritative U.S. business magazine Forbes publishes its list of billionaires, but this time round it also provided a special list of wealthy art collectors (see "Billionaire Art Collectors").
For the previous forty-eight years, New Yorkers had pulled the creaky levers of Shoup voting machines, which were patented in 1936, weighed eight hundred pounds each, and registered the sanctity of every vote with an authoritative clunk.
Justice Scalia said Mr. Ashcroft's action was "the most reasonable interpretation" of the statute because "virtually every relevant source of authoritative meaning confirms that the phrase 'legitimate medical purpose' does not include intentionally assisting suicide".
His manner in the classroom was authoritative in every respect.
Paata Burchuladze, far more artful in every way, was the solidly authoritative Ramfis.
That, in turn, is helping Chris Robshaw's development into the kind of authoritative Test captain every top side needs.
Her voice seems to come out of a happy nexus of heart, soul and brain that lends an authoritative weight to every note.
He rushes about the stage evoking every character, from the huskily authoritative Streisand to her stolid husband, James Brolin, and the hero's head-tossing, vindictive boyfriend.
An average of 545 people killed by local and state law enforcement officers in the US went uncounted in the country's most authoritative crime statistics every year for almost a decade, according to a report released on Tuesday.
His comments about GM crops have no basis: authoritative bodies including every national academy of science in the world, the World Health Organisation, the European commission and our own Food Standards Agency have found no evidence they cause harm.
