Sentence examples for venerable authority from inspiring English sources

The least compelling of these involved a quest for the identity of the venerable authority concerned.

Occasionally, even this venerable authority hits a duff note, suggesting he is unconvinced by some of this new age-y nonsense his publishers have forced him to cover.

But the debate would be absent the umbrage provoked by the authority of a venerable brand getting behind such a speculative story.

An article in the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal argued that the rash of "new" ideas and the wholesale rejection of time-honored precedent within medicine were causing severe consternation: "Does any one pant after eminence and distinction let him attack opinions which have been long received, and which are sheltered under the authority of illustrious and venerable names".

In 1773 Samuel Johnson recorded, "a paper was put into our hands, which deduced from sufficient authorities the history of this venerable ruin".

This mesh of intense effort, venerable craftsmanship and conceptual absurdity infuriated the Chinese authorities.

Up until the mid-1970s, according to wine authority Robert Parker, the grandees of the Côte d'Or continued the venerable practice of "ameliorating" the local juice with tanker-loads of Grenache from the Rhône.

(Chinen) ★ Barry Harris (Wednesday) A pianist of courtly but playful erudition, with steep authority in the bebop idiom, Mr. Harris performs a solo recital for the Abby Whiteside Foundation, the venerable piano institution for which he serves as an instructor and board member.

But no less a football authority than Rush Limbaugh viewed the scandal as merely a convenient way to oust a venerable coach who is past his prime.

Swiss authorities have urged banks to sign up to avoid the fate of Wegelin, a venerable private bank that closed after being indicted in New York for aiding tax dodgers.Banks have four choices.

The revelation last September from U.S. environmental authorities that the company had been cheating on emissions tests rocked one of the most venerable brand names in the global auto industry and cost it its chief executive as well as generations of goodwill.