She spoke to the audience with friendly authority.
With a voice that toggles between Tom Bodett's comforting sound and Paul Harvey's friendly authority, Mr. Huckabee speaks without notes and is never at a loss for a memorable phrase.
Karen MacNeil, director of the wine program at the Culinary Institute of America in California's Napa Valley, spent 10 years writing THE WINE BIBLE (Workman, paper, $19.95), the year's gift for the wine lover who wants a one-book source covering the wines of the world and the foods that go with them, presented cant-free and with easy, friendly authority.
Round his quiet, friendly, unassuming authority and kindly sympathy for all comers the whole pub revolved.
Jones adds more characteristics to paint the portrait of all MIT students: we are pragmatic, group-oriented, friendly towards authority figures, impatient ("they desire instant gratification"), and irresponsible ("they may not see or accept the consequences of their behavior").
Even so, what sense was there in the Israeli Army's devastating not just Mr. Arafat's headquarters, but all the infrastructure that even the most Sharon-friendly Palestinian Authority would need to function: the airport, municipal buildings, schools, banks and streets?
An obvious example here is Westminster council, always a top contender for the UK's least human-friendly local authority, which has in recent months telephoned in policies from the 1970s such as blocking construction of a well-supported new bike lane on a dangerous intersection, and halting moves to pedestrianise Oxford Street.
The charity's country director, Eric Mamboue, says that after his organisation and partners started child-friendly spaces, authorities decided to reopen the schools.
Berman — known on "Car Talk" as Doug "The Subway Fugitive, Bongo Boy, No Slave to Fashion" Berman — talked about Magliozzi on NPR's "Here and Now" on Monday, calling him "the friendliest anti-authority figure you'd ever meet".
First and foremost, the interactions need to be friendly and endorsed by authority figures.
An examination of the partition of Palestine in this broader imperial context suggests that partition, far from representing a "solution" to ethnic conflict, actually emerged as a strategy to smooth the path for imperial powers to create new forms of informal authority and friendly client states for a new postcolonial era, without regard for the human costs.
