Sentence examples for truly authoritative from inspiring English sources

I felt heartened that here were truly authoritative paintings by a living giant: writing about them would be a treat.

Since none have made use of a full range of sources in both languages, there has been no truly authoritative account of Cixi's rule.

Perhaps the only person who could provide a truly authoritative explanation for Libya's shift is Qaddafi himself, but on this point, he preferred to deal in abstractions.

Protestantism has sought to bind both tradition and the church to the authority of holy scripture, with the resulting problem of specifying what is to be regarded as truly authoritative interpretations of scripture.

Yet this truly authoritative array of ancient art, which has been brought across seas and continents, all goes to show one thing: the best surviving Greek images of the human body or anything else are right here in London.

However, some critics argue that the Faulkner edition was instead a "corrected" edition that added new revisions, and that neither text can truly be called authoritative.

The centrally important and most holy of the sacred texts have in many instances been gathered into canons (standard works of the faith), which, after being determined either by general agreement or by official religious bodies, become fixed i.e., limited to certain works that are alone viewed as fully authoritative and truly beyond all further change or alteration.

"I wonder how many even of his admirers would argue that Mr. Murdoch, for all his successes, has created even one serious, authoritative and truly independent newspaper," the columnist Martin Wolf wrote recently in the Financial Times, alluding to Murdoch's ownership of four national newspapers.

If there were an authoritative figure, the truly horrifying scope of corruption would be exposed.The finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a genuine reformer, has estimated that 400,000 barrels of oil a day were stolen in April.

I fully expect that Clinical Proteomics will be a truly international journal providing an authoritative forum for this field.

Gorbachev can hardly be expected to agree with all of Sakharov's ideas, but what is truly significant is his willingness to tolerate authoritative, independent voices speaking out from Moscow.