Sentence examples for usual authorities from inspiring English sources

More than many of his peers, he can stare the usual authorities in the face, tell them what they don't want to hear and emerge unscathed.

Trinklein compares the Gold Rush crew to the party fraternity in Animal House, where young men without the "usual authorities" of pastors, wives, or official government were allowed to roam chaotically unchecked in the Western wilderness.

7 Sam Warburton, capt 7/10 Could not exert his usual authority at the breakdown.

Nemanja Matic was unable to stamp his usual authority on this contest.

The choruses and soloists were generally solid, but the great baritone Sanford Sylvan, who sang Moses with his usual authority, clarity and nuance, was in another league.

"There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments," he codifies with his usual authority.

Williams rarely got herself in a position to come to the net, where she has been so commanding in the past, and when she did venture forward she did so without her usual authority.

Partita for solo violin – written in 2006 and played here with her usual authority by Lesley Hatfield – helped clarify Watkins's propensity to create an unselfconsciously lyrical flow of material and to balance it with a consciously meticulous craftsmanship.

Thanks to his coverage of the US election, Webb became a household name in the UK last year and, on 20 January, he will be reporting on Barack Obama's inauguration with his usual authority and charm.

Lovano's tonal delicacies were not best served by the Bath Forum's PA, but he eased between lateral Ornette Coleman-like melodic ingenuity and smoky ballad atmospherics with all his usual authority, and dominated the creativity of the group.

And even if Williams's expressive baritone could not encompass the extremities of the songs' range with his usual authority, every word was articulated so that they carried the palpable pain of the youth who is betrayed in love.