Sentence examples for obvious authority from inspiring English sources

What's so distressing about this situation is that there is no obvious authority that one can appeal to or challenge about what has happened.

Where players are dropped and coaches are sacked, one feels, administrators abide, saved from clear accountability mainly by lack of obvious authority.

Too often, though, they are simply found wanting in basic defensive situations, and the addition of the goalkeeper Loris Karius has not added any obvious authority to Liverpool are the back.

As he outlined his record in office there was no talk of the 1.1m job losses that Democrats still hope might undermine the obvious authority being a war president bestows.

Those who know Peter Bazalgette primarily as the man who brought Big Brother to these shores may not see him as the obvious authority on how the arts can grow its media presence at a time when it is braced for deep cuts.

The impression made on the public by the book's simple, direct language and by the obvious authority with which it treated the daily struggles and material hardships of camp life was magnified by its being one of the first Soviet literary works of the post-Stalin era to directly describe such a life.

It is, in short, the obvious basis of authority for a net-neutrality rule.

It hadn't been really obvious, either, what authority the dissident Republican electors were supposed to claim, beyond a sense of personal revulsion.

Mr. Sullivan, the former mayor, denied this, but said Mr. Francis's "cavalier attitude" and "obvious disdain" for authority have not helped him.

"From the purely legal standpoint, maintaining security in such conditions is the responsibility of the coalition forces that now have actual control, since it is obvious the Iraqi authority has lost its control on the ground".

He did not have to: it is obvious that the authority deliberately let lawmakers make a mistake, so it did not have to carry out a law it considers too costly.