Sentence examples for genuine authority from inspiring English sources

More to the point, he had an abundance of that elusive authenticity and genuine authority to which today's politicians aspire.

The entire sequence of events enables Trump to create a meta-message, which is that there's no such thing as truth and no such thing as genuine authority.

But Lawrence, whose experience gives him genuine authority on Kurdistan, could have provided more original analysis of the questions that gnaw at the reader.

He sometimes sounds more Victorian than his subject, but he is a genuine authority on Dodgson, and we are unlikely to need another.

Williams, a genuine authority, believes the number of black starters, alone, indicates that the N.F.L. has reached the point where "nobody is going to pass up a guy who can play" based on skin color.

As speaker of the Palestinian legislature, Mr. Qurei pushed for giving the prime minister's post genuine authority when it was created this past spring as part of political changes demanded by the United States, Israel and the Palestinians themselves.

Her specialty is 19th- and 20th-century decorative art, a field with a finite number of genuine authorities, which gives her an edge.

There is some dispute over what kind of reasons they must be, but for our purposes we can just follow Joseph Raz, who holds that genuine authorities give "protected reasons" by their dictates, where a protected reason to φ is a reason to φ and a reason to disregard some reasons against φ-ing.

In November, an American official said Mr. Allawi had to be "a genuine partner in the government with real authority".

If the west is to help other countries, we must do so from a position of genuine moral authority.

The one person in Myanmar with genuine moral authority, Miss Suu Kyi, has confined herself to calling for respect for the rule of law.