Sentence examples for source of authoritative from inspiring English sources

Justice Scalia said Mr. Ashcroft's action was "the most reasonable interpretation" of the statute because "virtually every relevant source of authoritative meaning confirms that the phrase 'legitimate medical purpose' does not include intentionally assisting suicide".

"Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)" means official pronouncements of the FASB as memorialized in the FASB Accounting Standards Codification® as the source of authoritative principles and standards recognized to be applied in the preparation of financial statements by federally-insured credit unions in the United States with assets of $10 million or more.

According to them, only the words of a trustworthy speaker (āpta) are a source of authoritative knowledge.

They agreed with the Mīmāṃsakas that the Vedas were a source of authoritative knowledge (śabda-pramāṇa), and yet they offered a different set of reasons.

Particularly, in connection with religious duty (dharma), and heaven (svarga) as the promised reward, only the Veda is available as the source of authoritative knowledge.

The elected consuls wielded imperium or executive power; the Senate enjoyed the power to deliberate and consent to specific policies; and the popular assemblies served as the source of authoritative law, also electing the magistrates and the popular tribunes who exercised veto powers over the Senate.

Whatever private doubts they might have harboured (about the use of lookalikes, etc), joining in the guesswork merely cast doubt on their credibility as sources of authoritative information.

The Apostolic Fathers, 2nd-century Christian writers, appealed to the prophets and Apostles as sources of authoritative doctrine, and Irenaeus and Tertullian laid great stress on "the rule of faith," which was a loose summary of essential Christian beliefs handed down from apostolic times.

But their experience does not give them the right to set themselves up as sources of authoritative information about immunisation, even less to foster unwarranted anxieties that may deter parents from having their children immunised, thus putting their health - and that of other, perhaps more vulnerable, children - at risk.

Lastly, it suggested that the new parliament should take steps to ensure that it had access to sources of authoritative and independent scientific advice to underpin its scrutinising and legislative roles.

In this connection, we may note that Mīmāṃsā and other systems of Hindu philosophy developed a notion of linguistic expression as one of the sources of authoritative knowledge (śabdapramāṇa), when other more basic sources of knowledge like sense perception (pratyakṣa) and inference (anumāna) are not available.