Sentence examples for vast authority from inspiring English sources
The phrase "vast authority" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that has a significant level of power, influence, or control in a particular area or field. Example: "The scientist spoke with vast authority on the subject of climate change, drawing from years of research and experience."
The war paradigm now seems an indefinite grant of dangerously vast authority to the president.
As you draw nearer, the glow assumes a shape, a significance, and, finally, a vast authority.
Any president has vast authority to influence policy even without legislation, through executive orders, agency rule-making and administrative fiat.
Just a few years ago, it was rare to hear public declarations from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claiming vast authority as a theologian.
The F.C.C. apparently will not seek to enforce the vast authority it has over telephone utilities in which it can regulate rates.
His detractors, and sometimes his supporters, question whether he is inconsistent in applying rules and whether he overreaches in using his vast authority.
The government, it said, already has "vast legal authority and numerous enforcement tools" to ensure food safety.
He created and headed the Emergency Financial Control Board, with the power to reject city budgets and labor contracts, giving him vast new authority at Mr. Beame's expense.
Pat Buchanan drafted Nixon's veto message, in which Nixon said that "for the Federal Government to plunge headlong financially into supporting child development would commit the vast moral authority of the National Government to the side of communal approaches to child rearing".
Richard Nixon returned to Eisenhower's system and delegated vast managerial authority to H. R. Haldeman, the Watergate conspirator whose ironfisted management of the White House abetted Nixon's own self-destructive behavior in office.
And it was Nixon who vetoed that, saying, We don't want to put the vast moral authority of the federal government behind a nontraditional family structure — you know, a messy life, the thing Katie writes about.
