Sentence examples for respectable authorities from inspiring English sources

There are also a number of respectable authorities to the effect that the limitation covers a case where the city agrees to pay a certain sum per annum, if the aggregate amount payable under such agreement exceeds the amount limited by the charter.

There's a disconnect between what people see around them and what they're told, often by highly respectable authorities, about what's happening.

This is best done by respectable authority figures.

The terrorists' power is illegal, and repugnant to any legitimate, respectable authority.

Bush's power is also illegal and repugnant, although less limited because it is backed by the strongest army in the world, and because thanks to him there's a significant lack of legitimate, respectable authority to appeal to.

This is a respectable confidence interval.

Savage points out something lost in most conversations about authority (and most conversations about memorials, too): That if authority is respectable, people generally respect it.

He is a believer in respectable appearance & respect for authority, and particularly love of country.

His refusal to compromise his views to suit either the authorities or respectable opinion has brought him opprobrium and enormous moral integrity.

Obama chose to cloak his quotation from the sometimes intemperate Paine in the authority of the respectable George Washington.

The authority must be respectable.