This is exactly the sort of subject that calls for hardheadedness, and Connelly supplies it, not in his prose but in his determination not to take the word of authority simply because it comes from authority.
"I remember a real subversive pleasure," she told an interviewer many years later, "that there was no word of authority that could change either the laws of physics or the conduct of mathematics".
Most nonscientists accept (or reject) these concepts largely on the word of authorities whom they respect or on views that are current in their circles (Ruse 2005).
As a result, the last two five-year plans have been, in the words of the authority's current executive director, Elliot G. Sander, put on a credit card.
Then, in the words of local authorities, Deng, suddenly and without provocation, "dropped dead".
"The contradictions in the words of European authorities are suspicious.
In the words of Human Rights Watch, "authorities have... unleashed an extraordinary assault on basic human rights and their defenders with a ferocity unseen in recent years -- an alarming sign given that the current leadership will likely remain in power through 2023".
Unlike Spanish, Italian has not been altered by the change in relations between the sexes, so the words for positions of authority – chief, minister, lawyer and so on – have no have feminine forms.
Were Iran to be passive in response to the Saudis' constant muscle flexing and heightened war of words, the authority of the Iranian government would be called into question both regionally and domestically.
Thus was born a style that made the public, and a generation of comics then in its infancy, think a little differently about humour, about the power of words, about authority, and about the world around them.
In other words, the mere appearance of authority can extract false information.
