Sentence examples for instructive authority from inspiring English sources

A deliciously readable account of a dark decade in domestic gastronomy; Shapiro is at her best when profiling the writers -- Julia Child and Betty Friedan, among others -- whose instructive authority eventually improved home cooking.

Bouchra's story would be instructive for the EU authorities, who justify their new deal by claiming that Turkey upholds refugee rights.

Noting that the United States was the only nation in the world to sanction the juvenile death penalty, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the majority, said it was appropriate to look to "the laws of other countries and to international authorities as instructive" in interpreting the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.

"The way he treated authority figures is instructive of the way he would likely have treated Rosie," Atmore said.

But the experience was instructive, Mr. Prendergast said, contributing to the authority's decisions to halt service entirely to protect equipment before Tropical Storm Irene in 2011 and Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

Certainly they present us with brutal deaths and with instructive falls of great men from positions of high authority to degradation and misery.

"There really is bad precedent in recent American history in the expansion of the executive branch's interpretation of the authority the president has, and I believe his conduct in Libya is instructive to us here," Mr. Rigell said.

Another challenge is to persuade Iraqis to accept the interim authority as legitimate, he said; in this regard, America's experience in other countries could be instructive.

Instructive, too.

And instructive.

Some are instructive.