Not too long after Grealish's decision to declare for England was announced, the Telegraph's northern football correspondent Luke Edwards let it be known on Twitter that he had heard on "good authority" that Grealish had declared for England for "commercial reasons", the financial benefits of England far outweighing those of playing for their neighbours across the Irish sea.
Prince Charles, I have it on good authority (I cooked dinner for him once), won't have a meal without one.
But I have it on good authority whom to watch for during Carnival 2012: Wendy just emailed me that "the ladies holding their own are Nadia Batson and Michelle Xavier".
There's also of course the need for a good authority figure in an institution, and this is where the similarities end.
Even as a rhetorical strategy, there is something so utterly twisted about this, prioritising as it does deference towards an imagined "good" authority (the Queen) over contempt for a clearly bad one (Trump).
"From good authority?" "Yes.
More broadly, you can defend the charge on the grounds that you had "good reason or lawful authority" for having the item with you.
But, unlike Campbell, Beckford couldn't rely on exotic good looks and physical authority: for the majority of people in the fashion industry, black male models still tend to generate lurid fantasies of subway "gangstas," and many American designers aren't sure that black men can sell.
But using the authority of "God" to justify unjust acts and to aggrandize personal power has lead to today's state, where the very word "God" has become a subject of debate, rather than a transcendent authority for good.
"Corruption has been there and will continue to be, as long as poverty reigns over the population and as long as the present caliber of selfish leaders continue to occupy respectable places," the Kenya Times, a paper allied with Mr. Moi, said in an editorial today that urged lawmakers to approve the anticorruption authority for the good of the people.
