Sentence examples for was authority from inspiring English sources
noun
The power to enforce rules or give orders.
- I have the authority to penalise the staff in my department, but not the authority to sack them.
He wasn't anti-authority, he was authority.
Much has been made of Francis's humility, but what I sensed equally was authority.
What was needed was authority and tactical savvy, not winks and witticisms.
If the Consulate's motto was "Authority from above, confidence from below," Napoleon's religious policy helped secure that confidence.
She earned a master's degree in elementary education at Columbia and was authority on early education and child welfare.
"Cold war readers," Caleb Crain says, "decided that the message" of "Billy Budd" was "authority," while "formalist readers... were so pleased with their knowing identification of Melville's slipperiness that they decided that the slipperiness was the message".
"This is authority that nobody has today".
How is authority to be wielded?
