Sentence examples for modern authorities from inspiring English sources

Modern authorities do not agree on all aspects of anuran classification, and further study is needed to clarify the relationships of certain groups.

The pellet bell, or crotal (a term also having many other meanings), a spherical vessel with loose pellets, has been historically regarded as a type of bell, but modern authorities now classify it as a rattle; jingle and sleigh bells are familiar examples.

The majority of modern authorities have assessed McClellan as a poor battlefield general.

The exact eclipse involved remains uncertain, although the issue has been studied by hundreds of ancient and modern authorities.

Many modern authorities hold that the name "Gigha" is probably derived either from the Norse Guðey or from Gud-øy, meaning either "good island" or "God island".

During these durbars, traditional and modern authorities (e.g., chiefs, elders, district assemblymen, and clergy members) announced the purpose of the study.

If they can't, we get a new, modern authority.

Possibly the state of psychological knowledge in 1896 had been inadequate for the Court to realize this, he suggested, but it is "amply supported by modern authority".

He was mentioned in a footnote in the 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka as a "modern authority" supporting the Court's conclusion that segregation in the public schools generates in Negro children "a feeling of inferiority...that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone".

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Whatever may have been the extent of psychological knowledge at the time of Plessy v. Ferguson, this finding is amply supported by modern authority.^11.^11