Sentence examples for were authorities 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.
Or were authorities looking in the right place but unaware of the threat due to resource constraints or access limitations?
Only because of John's hospital visit, from which he was still wearing a wristband, were authorities able to identify his body.
Pasquier denied that medieval chronicles were "authorities," instead regarding them as raw materials or primary sources, no more credible than law codes or even folk traditions.
Throughout the Middle Ages, the manuscripts known as Great and Little Domesday were authorities on matters of law and title, and remain an almost unbelievably rich mine for historians, lawyers, geographers and philologists today.
Unhappy were authorities in France, of course, where the proscribed work nonetheless showed up, and the reactionary Jurieu, who mobilized the Consistory of the Walloon Church in Rotterdam against Bayle, who was then constrained to publish Eclaircissements or "Clarifications" of his treatment of atheism, Manicheism, skepticism and obscenity.
Were authorities prepared?
There are authorities who share this view.
"This is authority that nobody has today".
