Sentence examples for supposed authority from inspiring English sources

So goes the warning from the AHA, the supposed authority on the subject.

What we should have learned from the Iraq debacle was that you should always be skeptical and that you should never rely on supposed authority.

By contrast, among women, a job with supposed authority was only intrinsically rewarding when it was coupled with their own perception of having real influence at work.

No amount of aggregation can substitute for this basic critical function, which has nothing to do with the supposed authority of professional critics.

As for the new Council's supposed authority, he adds, "until we see it, we can't know for sure".

We have found ourselves able to challenge the supposed authority of a central CFL discipline, in our different capacities, and able to construct independent trajectories.

Policemen bumble, sailors get seasick, nurses botch instructions, and supposed authorities have no experience.

It is littered with erroneous statements and conclusions because even the supposed authorities had no true understanding of what they were talking about.

In school we learn to quote supposed "authorities" – writers who lend support to our case not simply because of the veracity of their findings or the eloquence they lend to our words but also because they have some kind of recognised standing which we hope to add to our own.

What the Post story, as well as the prior Politico piece, fail to mention is that these supposed authorities on Washington ethics all themselves have traded on their own government roles to become paid shills for for-profit college interests.

Now, with the shogunate abolished, the emperor restored to his supposed ancient authority, and an exhaustive programme of learning from the West (rather than, as in the past, from decrepit China) well under way, it was meant to be, as the term Meiji denotes, an Age of Brightness.And so it was, for a time.