Sentence examples for unique authority from inspiring English sources

And Kew has the unique authority to do it.

It was Messiaen's own achievement as a composer that gave him unique authority as a teacher.

As former victims of political delusion, these defectors claim a unique authority.

The picture you selected of the small boy was a moving but much reproduced image and could not convey the unique authority of Karski's own visage.

The composer's own recording has a unique authority, but there's a more visceral drama in Wit's performance, and refinement and tensile strength in Salonen's interpretation.

California, which has long battled smog, has the unique authority to set its own air quality rules, and other states are permitted to follow its air regulations.

Governments claim unique authority--the power not only to compel individuals, against their will, to act (or forbear from acting), but to do so legitimately.

It was, I believe, to this quality that Daniel Barenboim alluded when he spoke of Said's unique moral authority in the hours after he died.

Bangladesh has the unique moral authority to convince big polluters to change their ways: it is especially vulnerable to climate change and cannot be blamed for causing it.

Mr. Sharon, the settlement movement's chief advocate and defender over the years, would have unique political authority to justify such evacuations if he signed on to the basic elements of the Saudi proposal.

When he was elected President in April 1994, he was accepted by whites as well as blacks as the embodiment of his country's new democracy, with a unique moral authority.