Sentence examples for sort of authority from inspiring English sources

"What, you're some sort of authority?" she said.

The overriding problem in failing to stamp any sort of authority on the game stemmed from a lack of communication and gumption at the back.

There may be a particularly good reason to exercise this sort of authority when the parties come to court with a deferred prosecution agreement.

That is not the sort of authority, in any sense of that word, that will calm the streets of Ferguson, or any city.

Catalans rallied and tried to assert some sort of authority on the game but they were helpless to prevent Hull KR's fourth try through Graeme Horne soon afterwards.

Without Andy Flintoff, there is no other player in the side with the sort of authority that those two can offer.

On Friday afternoon, Erin Healy, a White House spokeswoman, noted that General Myers had previously questioned whether the national intelligence director should have the sorts of authority outlined in the Senate bill.

The first-hand experience of stigmatization may confer two sorts of authority on people with disabilities.

It is indeed a mark of the resilience and flexibility of the sovereign state that it has accommodated such diverse sorts of authority.

"It leads to a increasing case where people are encouraged to distrust traditional sources of authority and place trust in alternative sorts of authority that are not based on any sort of training and skill set or development of knowledge but charisma and self-assigned credentials".

Different audiences value different sorts of "authorities" and a fundamental mistake is to refer to something your audience cannot evaluate or will not evaluate positively.