Sentence examples for language authority from inspiring English sources

And, in response to a question from William Safire, the language authority and New York Times columnist, about choice in matters of privacy, Mr. Gore replied: "Along with roughly 270 million other Americans, I use words more carelessly than Bill Safire, and in choosing the word 'choose,' I did not inform myself of the deeper, more subtle meanings, which I can now see clearly".

One of those units is the Fourth Stryker Brigade, based at Fort Lewis, in Washington State, which established an intensive 10-month Arabic course for 125 of its soldiers to attend before their next deployment, said Gail H. McGinn, senior language authority at the Department of Defense.

Job Description: As the Air Force's senior language authority, lead the planning, direction and evaluation of culture, region and language expertise programs.

Language authorities would disapprove.

Some parts are frustratingly brief: his treatment of the overly rigid approach of state language authorities in dealing with national dialects is one example.

I considered investing in one, giddy at the thought of how beautiful it would look in the kitchen, but then I read Paula Wolfert, perhaps the foremost English-language authority on Moroccan cooking, say that "the shallow bottom is most important for braising meat for a 'tagine' … You use less liquid than in a deep casserole and the sauce emerges intense in texture and flavour".

Force becomes the language of authority, and authority is sustained by force.

The centers largely fly below the radar of English-language authorities — they advertise online or in Chinese-language publications.

Building on a tradition of surreal British satire that goes back to film-makers such as Lindsay Anderson or screenwriter Dennis Potter, Thomas draws attention to the tacit systems that shape daily life, whether the body language of authority figures or the empty rhetoric of institutions.

Anderson's singing voice has improved over the years, but speech still predominates - both her natural voice, sometimes processed with harmoniser or vocoder, and her "man's voice", which enables her to question the language of authority, and our attitudes towards things we thought "had gone forever: hanging, beheading, people in cages, torture".

Internal persuasive discourse that is "half-ours and half someone else's" (Bakhtin, 1981) is contrasted with authoritative discourse, which is the more alien and static language of authority, and helps the teacher tone down the force of his comments and controls frustration.