Sentence examples for persuasive authority from inspiring English sources

But Carey writes with persuasive authority, and we are inclined to believe him.

Nicklinson's lawyers have drawn parallels with a recent case in Canada that they cited in their legal arguments as a "relevant and a persuasive authority".

The designation is used relatively rarely and only for "controlling or persuasive authority," meaning that the cited decision played a substantial role in shaping the later decision.

I was put in mind of José Saramago's novel "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ," which reimagines Jesus' life and death with similarly persuasive authority.

Dr. Freedman added, "It upsets faculty members who will believe that the former president had more persuasive authority in picking the new president than the faculty members on the search committee".

In the truly international business of shipping, China has emerged from being a jurisdiction of last resort to a jurisdiction of choice in many cases.There is every indication that over the next 15 years China will produce a body of maritime jurisprudence that will be of persuasive authority in other jurisdictions.

"A king's loss of capacity to produce public monuments because of scribe capture was a blow to his persuasive power, authority and presence".

When the film was made during the peak period of anti-terrorist legislation the golden touch of Hollywood was, it seemed, sufficiently persuasive for the authorities to permit a massed horde of extras dressed as the nation's most famous terrorist to cavort riotously in Parliament Square.

In his ruling, Judge Noel L. Hillman of Federal District Court in New Jersey said Mr. Wolf's "argument and authority are persuasive," but he ultimately tossed out the lawsuit, citing Concepcion.

To many in Harney County, a place with an ambivalent relationship with government, the image of the Hammonds as persecuted victims of authority is persuasive.

He has also defended the Supreme Court's use of foreign law and international law as persuasive (but not binding) authority in its decisions.