Sentence examples for may be authoritative from inspiring English sources
These resources may be authoritative (position or office held, for example) or allocative (material) [ 17].
The father may be the authoritative figure in the family, but he would not be in that position if not for his children.
(This consent may be either to a person or to a set of rules: both of these can be authoritative)" (1999, p. 330).
"We can't be authoritative," she said.
The specifications should be authoritative, not restraining.
Do you think parents should be authoritative?
The person should be authoritative, competent, serious and straightforward.
Be authoritative in your speech.
"Die schöne Müllerin," "Winterreise," and "Schwanengesang," the three great Schubert cycles, are here, with Gerald Moore at the piano; this "Winterreise," from 1962, may be the most authoritative of Fischer-Dieskau's eight studio versions of the cycle.
The full results of the conductor's investigations can be found in a complete Beethoven cycle on the Deutsche Grammophon label, which may be the most authoritative traversal since Karajan's in the nineteen-sixties.
