Sentence examples for modest authority from inspiring English sources

Throughout Abbott exuded the modest authority of a politician nowadays sometimes called a veteran who knows she's going to win her seat.

As someone who has dealt with several generations of students in my years of university teaching, I can say with some modest authority that these are among the most realistic and most idealistic young people I've ever taught.

Known affectionately to his intimates as "Palmer," he was a much loved and admired brother, cousin, mentor, friend, enjoyed for his whimsy, protean knowledge, ironic wit, modest authority and supportive generosity.

The BMW's burble has similar modest authority, but the Mercedes has the staccato blast of a Nascar Sprint Cup racer.

These proposals vary a lot, from more modest authorizations of the program to efforts to streamline FISA and provide resources so that authorities could get warrants more quickly.

Democracy allows us to have a more modest, organic authority.

Yet even where the amount being foregone was relatively modest, any authority which is not putting the council tax up by the maximum permitted amount could find it harder to justify any controversial spending cuts or argue that it is not getting enough government money.

In 1938, he played opposite Bette Davis in Wyler's Jezebel, which cashed in on the pre-publicity for Gone With the Wind, and in 1939 began his notable partnership with Ford in Young Mr Lincoln and the Revolutionary War drama Drums Along the Mohawk, establishing his screen persona as a modest man of authority, a natural leader.

The medication is costly, the effect modest and health authorities are increasingly considering economics in the introduction of such treatments.

D.F.W. found Garner the ideal mix of instructor and explainer, a teacher with the true credentials of the modest and informed, an authority "not in an autocratic but a technocratic sense".

Officially, the public advocate is the city's ombudsman, solving problems, overseeing city agencies and presiding over Council meetings, all with a few dozen staff members, a modest budget and limited authority.