How can a rule's, a judgment's, or an institution's legal ("formal," "systemic") validity, or its facticity or efficacy as a social phenomenon (e.g., of official practice), make it authoritative in its subject's deliberations?
It was from this bitter experience that, by the end of the 1970s, we began to stress the need to improve the legal system and laws, to maintain the stability and continuity of this system of law and make it very authoritative.
Your handshake is also very important, so make sure you make it firm and authoritative, but don't crush the interviewer's hand.
The constitution of parents and children may, like the British one, be unwritten, but, as the Brits point out, that doesn't make it less enforceable or authoritative.
He said the paper planned for a "seamless transition," seeking to maintain The Tribune as "an international paper of the highest quality" while adding resources to make it more timely and authoritative.
If you don't like how you sound, there are ways to work on your voice to make it more expressive and authoritative.
C. 1525 Kraków, Poland May 1, 1572 Kraków, Poland Moses ben Israel Isserles, acronym Rema (born c. 1525, Kraków, Pol. died May 1, 1572, Kraków) Polish-Jewish rabbi and codifier who, by adding notes on Ashkenazic customs to the great legal digest Shulḥan ʿarukh of the Sephardic codifier Joseph Karo, made it an authoritative guide for Orthodox Jews down to the present day.
To hear the harpsichordist and conductor Trevor Pinnock launch into the opening cadence of the fifth Brandenburg Concerto is a bit like hearing Keith Richards cranking out the riff to Satisfaction – it's incredible to think that he still has the motivation and excitement to make it sound so vital and authoritative after all these years.
Wikipedia often makes it seem more authoritative than it is on animals.
The disorganized nature of the blogosphere and the ephemeral nature of blogs makes it difficult to assemble an authoritative directory, in any case.
Despite the work of the Internet Archive, the lack of a complete and authoritative Web archive makes it possible for digital information to disappear forever, Zittrain said.
