In all these fights Mr Hatoyama has come across as quirky rather than authoritative.
And then this odd but rather lovingly authoritative voice came out of me.
They said they wanted to collaborate in decisions about their care but felt they couldn't because doctors often acted authoritarian, rather than authoritative.
The word they first used, Dr. Leavitt said, made it "sound like God had been working out at the gym," conveying a vision of physical strength rather than authoritative power.
When the data become accessible to others, it becomes clear that scientific authorship is provisional rather than authoritative.
However, Google Flu Trends has shown poor performance in estimating the burden of influenza [ 17], correlates better with influenza-like illness than with laboratory-confirmed influenza [ 18], cannot accommodate data from healthcare settings, and is considered a supplementary rather than authoritative source for influenza surveillance [ 19– 219.
Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments was pungent, bright-toned and crisply authoritative rather than elegiac.
He was energetic, yes, and even brash in passages of works by Mendelssohn and Dvorak, but he managed to be authoritative rather than merely to act it.
Her distinctive approach to Coolidge results in a soothing lullaby about a vanished America, an exercise in nostalgic reverence rather than an authoritative history.
Expanding this approach across Europe could ultimately lead to the demise of the right of individual petition, in favour of a judicial dialogue where the Strasbourg court is used as a sounding board rather than an authoritative voice.
