Sentence examples for make authoritative from inspiring English sources

Phrenology was a model that relied on pseudoscientific nonsense to make authoritative pronouncements, and for decades it went untested.

That is faster than the most pessimistic projections of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body set up to make authoritative pronouncements on the science of global warming.

According to some, native speakers have the unwritten right to make authoritative statements about what you can and cannot say in English and, therefore, to correct non-native speaker usage.

While working with the bare skeleton of biographical details and much more hagiography, it's hard to make authoritative statements on Fard.

But if there is a dispute over the meaning or application of a particular law or provision, it is up to the courts to make authoritative determination on what the law means.

The ethics committee can make authoritative decisions alone or in consultation with another administrative authority [ 34].

(In fact, even a sustained drop in the stock market has a limited effect on the economy, and short term fluctuations have almost no impact). This means that when Wall Street, or their designated mouthpieces, make authoritative-sounding claims that the markets will be upset if we don't cut social security or Medicare as part of a budget deal, there is no direct way to refute them.

Donald MacKenzie has long been without equal as a sociologist of how late modern futures are brought into being and made authoritative.

Because examples of mass suicide are so few and far between psychiatrists are chary of making authoritative statements about why and how they happen, but studies of human behaviour point to some explanations.

We affirm the validity of the claims of science in describing the natural world, although we preclude science from making authoritative claims about theological issues….

He still carries the habits of a scientist, pausing in the middle of sentences to reconsider or rephrase what he was about to say, and shying away from making authoritative statements about anything he hasn't examined personally.