Sentence examples for performance of authority from inspiring English sources

Like them, he adapts historical texts to reflect the world as it is now: a fragmented place, torn apart by war, by the disintegration of the family, and by politicians who offer a canned performance of authority while disavowing all responsibility.

For Arsenal, however, he has the chance to flourish and this was a performance of authority, and delivered against the Premier League champions.

As well as understanding this story – and the focus group encounter as a whole – as an example of gender and sexual identity work, I would argue that this was a performance of authority and protest that was classed as well as gendered.

He said the main priority was using resources effectively, while improving the quality of provision in schools, and the performance of authorities that are not doing as well as they should.

At its crassest, this is an 'I know better than you, young lady' performance of scientific authority to close down debate.

Our present cultural climate discourages empathy — a stay-in-your-lane policing has been afoot for a while now — and demands the performance of absolute authority.

Kondogbia might have wilted but instead delivered a performance of impressive authority, protecting the two stand-in centre-backs, tracking the runs of Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Özil and using his athleticism to cause problems at the other end.

The result, though, is great fun.Bedrich Smetana's "Ma vlast" (Supraphon SU 3465 2) is one of his best known works, so it takes a performance of unusual authority and affection to bring out something new in it.

Andy Murray moved to within two victories of realising his greatest ambition here yesterday when he swept into his third successive Wimbledon semi-final with another performance of great authority.

It may be impossible to deduce from the scoreline, but Hearts disrupted the series of draws in this season's Edinburgh derbies with a performance of such authority their followers could have legitimately nurtured hopes of avenging the notorious 7-0 defeat of 1973.

Sixty years to the day since the old West Germany fashioned the Wonder of Berne to beat Hungary in the final of the 1954 World Cup, Joachim Löw's current crop produced a performance of cool authority to edge one step closer to glory.