Sentence examples for severe authority from inspiring English sources

Kate is a retired headteacher with a natural air of kindly but severe authority, with strong links to the local community – their young postman is a former pupil who can't help being slightly nervous around Kate, as she offers her good-natured if faintly seigneurial congratulations on his becoming a new dad.

His definitive portraits of the powerful and the powerless encompassing, in a manner almost without equal in the history of portraiture, the artistic and political hierarchies of the past half century of American life were almost Roman in their severe authority.

His definitive portraits of the powerful and the powerless — encompassing, in a manner almost without equal in the history of portraiture, the artistic and political hierarchies of the past half century of American life — were almost Roman in their severe authority.

The more severe authorities had thought her rape, whatever her personal virtue, a taint from which she could never be cleansed, and judged her suicide, an act abhorrent to God, as compounding rather than expiating the foulness.

4 5 13 14 Despite a lack of evidence, several authorities have suggested use of double dose oseltamivir for severe influenza.

Local media said the situation was so severe that authorities declared a "level two emergency" and deployed more than 2,600 security guards to watch over the throng.

Four people died and several more were injured in southern Germany after violent storms with torrential rains caused severe flooding, authorities said.

Among all the cases, at least two suffered severe symptoms, authorities said.

John Constantino, 64, of Mount Laurel, N.J., had burns so severe that authorities needed to use DNA and dental records to identify him.

More than two dozen people may have participated in an attack on a 17-year-old Iranian asylum-seeker in south London, leaving him hospitalized with severe injuries, authorities said.

Further hindering investigators was the fact that the injuries to the passenger's face were so severe that authorities were unable to release a photo of him to the public.