Sentence examples for in her authority from inspiring English sources

Rather than boosting the lawyer's confidence in her authority, they seem to shadow and erode it as the story unfolds.

Wendy Whelan, though constant in her authority, seems to slide off the music in her Balanchine roles but in Alexei Ratmansky's "Concerto DSCH" can meet the score as if conducting it.

When the police caught one math teacher accepting a marked 50-euro note from a student and the problem came out into the open, the teachers rebelled against her with a vote of no confidence in her authority.

"She is doing everything in her authority to institute a saner and more effective approach to this problem," said Robert Gangi, executive director of the Correctional Association of New York, which monitors prisons.

The memo continued: The Secretary is interested in using her authority to approve waiver demonstrations to challenge states to engage in a new round of innovation that seeks to find more effective mechanisms for helping families succeed in employment.

Courage is not a virtue frequently associated with the criticism beat, but it lies near the heart of Kael's achievement — not because she was unsqueamish about praising and slamming movies (though she was) but because, from the time she wrote her first review until the moment she retired, in 1991, her authority as a critic relied solely on her own, occasionally whimsical taste.

Perhaps there is no attitude to which we can point in order to distinguish between cases in which the power of an agent's motives can be directly attributed to her and cases in which her authority over her motives is a mere formality.

In practice, her authority was always limited by the effects of the civil wars.

Nadia (all names have been changed) sat for hours in her local authority housing department with her three children, trying to find access to a refuge.

The evident love in her maternal authority allows Jordan to flower; Kimberly's completely involved in Jordan's life, but she doesn't mess with her sense of self.

They also launched a fierce verbal attack on the culture prevalent in her local authority: "In the third applicant's case, however, a combination of backstabbing by her colleagues and the blinkered political correctness of the borough of Islington (which clearly favoured 'gay rights' over fundamental human rights) eventually led to her dismissal".