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Sentences starting with authority

Authority seemed to invest him with a new splendor. [5]

Sentences ending with authority

It is hard work to make a speech when you have listened to compliments from the powers in authority. [5]
I thought you were just holding out against Dryfoos because he took a dictatorial tone with you, and because you wouldn't recognize his authority. [8]
Once or twice we have found him admitting still more objectionable articles into his materia medica; in doing which, I am sorry to say that he could plead grave and learned authority. [3]
Only these: I want the well and the surroundings for the space of half a mile, entirely to myself from sunset to-day until I remove the ban--and nobody allowed to cross the ground but by my authority. [5]
Against all human versions of its own or any other authority. [6]
One is by trying to demonstrate it upon reason, and the other is, to show that great men in former times have thought so and so, and thus to pass it by the weight of pure authority. [7]
It pains me to report the events which took place when the master made his rash attempt to maintain his authority. [6]
Its object is to put the world back under the thrall of self-constituted authority. [9]
We have first to cast off the leading strings of authority. [9]
Apparently one of these laws has been broken; when the King is on his throne again, can it ever grieve him to remember that when he was seemingly a private person he loyally sank the king in the citizen and submitted to its authority? [5]

Short sentences using authority

She already possessed that authority. [5]
By whose authority? [7]

Sentences containing authority two or more times

Looking now to the present and future, and with reference to a resumption of the national authority within the States wherein that authority has been suspended, I have thought fit to issue a proclamation, a copy of which is herewith transmitted. [7]
The opinion of the nine seems strange to me, for it is unsupported by authority, while there was at least constructive authority for the opposite view. [5]
But how different the impressions made by the man in authority and the same man out of authority! [9]
I demand of Judge Douglas by whose authority he meant to say those articles were published, if not by the authority of the President of the United States and his Cabinet? [7]
Mrs. Eddy was Autocrat of the Church before, with limitless authority, and she kept her grip on that limitless authority when she took that fictitious title. [5]
This force was a special organization got up by one Bartlett, in pretended pursuance of written authority from me, but in fact, pursuing the authority in scarcely anything whatever. [7]

More example sentences with the word authority in them

He crawls after Zeno; he submits to authority, and requires more independent spirits to do the same. [10]
If--always according to your notion of the convention--if I don't get out, and haven't any chance, they tell me on pretty good authority Austen Vane will get the nomination. [9]
I'll talk with you tomorrow, and am I not right, Jungfrau Elsyou won't make him suffer for losing the wager, but exercise your domestic authority after a more gentle fashion? [10]
You could not yield to the discipline of school, where we all must learn to obey if we would afterwards exercise our authority with moderation, and without any orders you left Egypt and joined the army. [10]
This was ten years before they had the authority to do the same thing as to the States existing at the adoption of the Constitution. [7]
He spoke now with the authority of divine justice. [11]
Do you come with any authority to make inquiries? [6]
Smith professed himself willing to retire to England, but, seeing the new commission did not arrive, held on to his authority, and began to enforce it to save the whole colony from anarchy. [4]
I serve him whose master I believe I ought to be by birth; I hate Rameses, who, sincerely or no, calls me his brother; and while I stand as if I were the bulwark of his authority I am diligently undermining it. [10]
But this, Martin, who was only intent upon loading the return ship with "his phantastical gold," opposed, and Nelson did not think he had authority to allow it, unless they would bind themselves to pay the hire of the ships. [4]
It is Eucken who says that the individual, once released from external authority, can never be turned back to it. [9]
Her first exploit, which cost her immense effort and established her authority, was the packing of the carpets. [2]
The time was when the divine authority of his gospel rested chiefly upon the miracles he is reported to have wrought. [6]
In mediaeval times, when a bishop spoke ex cathedra, his authority, so far as it carried weight, came from two sources. [9]
Now Hodder saw what the little librarian had meant by an authority restored. [9]
And we know what Helmholtz, the highest authority in Europe on the subject, has said about the human eye; that if an optician had sold him an instrument so carelessly made, he would have thought himself fully justified in returning it. [1]
The people's minds were tuned to a high pitch and this was too simple and needlessly comprehensible--it was what any one of them might have said and therefore was what an ukase emanating from the highest authority should not say. [2]
Clay and Webster were dead before this question arose; by what authority shall our Senator say they would espouse his side of it if alive? [7]
She had the way of one in authority, and Mr. Sherman himself ran to open the door of his only closed carriage, and the driver galloped off with her all the way to the Brampton House. [9]
And the Tribune was prepared to state; on its own authority, that a Mr. Humphrey Crewe did exist, and might reluctantly consent to take the nomination for the governorship. [9]
On what Authority was it based? [9]
But now--now something was brought home to her of the magnificent certainty with which they must first have been spoken, of the tone and bearing and authority of him who had uttered them. [9]
I was openly warned at Brooks's and elsewhere to beware of the duke, who was said upon various authority to be sulking in Hanover Square, his rage all the more dangerous because it was smouldering. [9]
Resolved, That N. W. Edwards, A. G. Henry, James H. Matheny, John C. Doremus, and James C. Conkling be appointed a Whig Central State Committee, with authority to fill any vacancy that may occur in the committee. [7]
Rolfe identified these visitors, and one morning called her attention to one who he said was the nation's foremost authority on social science. [9]
Thin-skinned, like all up-starts in authority, he took the bishop's delay as an act of personal contumely. [10]
Finally Noel came up out of his thinkings and said: "The first shall be last and the last first--there's authority for this surprise. [5]
And so my two visitors with the aristocratic titles staggered off, and left us plain, untitled citizens, Hiram and myself, to set our posts, and consider the question whether we lived in a free country or under the authority of a self-constituted order of quasi-nobility. [6]
This is especially true when the authority of great names is fallen back upon as a defence of opinions not in themselves deserving to be upheld. [6]
In general the trait of Speranski's mentality which struck Prince Andrew most was his absolute and unshakable belief in the power and authority of reason. [2]
His temperament and training will decide what he shall do, and he will do it; he cannot help himself, he has no authority over the mater. [5]
And the policy towards it could not have been much worse, either to impress it with a respect for authority or to win it by conciliation; it has been a strange mixture of untimely concession and untimely cruelty. [4]
But on turning to two works, one almost universally, and the other extensively appealed to as authority in this country, I see ample reason to overlook this objection. [3]
The public purpose to re-establish and maintain the national authority is unchanged, and, as we believe, unchangeable. [7]
He asked permission to inquire of the learned counsel for the defence by what authority he declared that the State could not afford to enter into a policy by which grade crossings would gradually be eliminated. [9]
She had yet to grasp the fact that, being her son's wife, she must have, therefore, a position in the house, exercising a certain authority over the servants, who, to Mrs. Armour, at first seemed of superior stuff. [11]
These appointments are to continue during the pleasure of the President, not extending beyond the military occupation of the city of New Orleans or the restoration of the civil authority in that city and in the State of Louisiana. [7]
It is important to bear in mind that the statesmen of our Revolution were inaugurating a political and not a social revolution, and that the gravamen of their protest was against the authority of a distant crown. [4]
He desires Lanphier to be taken as authority in what he states in his newspaper. [7]
It was as though she was the authority in the household and took control even of her mother. [11]
Snakes coloured in this peculiar manner, as Mr. Wallace states on the authority of Dr. Gunther (62. [1]
I've come here this evening as your friend, without authority from anybody," he added significantly, "to see if this thing couldn't somehow be adjusted peaceably, for your sake as well as others'. [9]
By authority of this astonishing By-law, she has only to say a person connected with that Church is secretly practicing hypnotism or mesmerism; whereupon, immediate excommunication, without a hearing, is his portion! [5]
I do not think we believe things because considerable people say them, on personal authority, that is, as intelligent listeners very commonly did a century ago. [6]
It is true they did place my name, though without authority, upon the committee, and afterward wrote me to attend the meeting of the committee; but I refused to do so, and I never had anything to do with that organization. [7]
I believe by these and other similar measures taken in that crisis, some of which were without any authority of law, the government was saved from overthrow. [7]
The policeman stood there; he saw his face: it was not bad, not cruel; it was like the face of a statue, fixed, perdurable--a mere image of irresponsible and involuntary authority. [8]
In doing this there needs to be no bloodshed or violence; and there shall be none, unless it be forced upon the national authority. [7]
The lilies are there by authority of the King--do you understand the size of that? [5]
If he does, then there is a question of veracity, not between him and me, but between the Judge and an Authority of a somewhat higher character. [7]
Wasn't Clark even then on the Ohio raising a great army with authority from the Commonwealth of Virginia to rid them of the red scourge? [9]
We must reject them as insufficient, or lie down and do nothing by any authority. [7]
I fear now their going back without any expression from anyone in authority will have a bad influence. [7]
I had stopped the wheels, and there my authority and responsibility ceased. [5]
Three buildings in the village stood out insistently, more by the authority of their appearance and position than by their size. [11]
John experienced all the thrill of this conspicuous authority, and I daresay that nothing in his later life has so exalted him in his own esteem; certainly nothing has since happened that was so important as the events of that parade day seemed. [4]
I never read the sermons you refer to; I dare say they're crude, but they're probably attempts to release an explosive which would blow your comfortable social system and its authority into atoms. [9]
For fifteen centuries, the recognition of this authority and power has been altogether exceptional. [5]
As already noticed, the Protestants are broken up into a long array of sects, a result of disputes about the meanings of texts, disputes made unavoidable by the absence of an infallible authority to submit doubtful passages to. [5]
Smith says that the President and Council greatly envied his reputation with the Indians, and wrought upon them to believe, by giving in trade four times as much as the price set by Smith, that their authority exceeded his as much as their bounty. [4]
Tarboe knew of the position held by Denzil in the Shale household; and that long years of service had given him authority. [11]
I already had the points and authority sent me by you and by Mr. Goodrich, but had not studied them. [7]
The authority of the other sovereigns has limits, hers has none, none whatever. [5]
Galen was still the only medical authority recognized in Missouri; his practice was the only practice known to the Missouri doctors, and his prescriptions were the only ammunition they carried when they went out for game. [5]
In later days the nobles made use of the Ephori as a power, which, springing immediately from their own body, they could oppose to the kingly authority. [10]
The restoration of the national authority throughout all the States. [7]
The flight to the mountains of men high in authority in the Mormon Church and State, when this affair was brought to the ordeal of a judicial investigation. [5]
Men such as the ministers who have been described could not fail to exercise a good deal of authority in the communities to which they belonged. [6]
On one of the latter days of that three-weeks session the gowned scholars and professors made one grand assault all along the line, fairly overwhelming Joan with objections and arguments culled from the writings of every ancient and illustrious authority of the Roman Church. [5]
They had freed the country of highwaymen and murderers to a great extent, and they determined that in the absence of the regular civil authority they would establish a People's Court where all offenders should be tried by judge and jury. [5]
By virtue of the authority in me vested I declare the fair open. [5]
It is singular that while he was engaged with his great event, he was also thinking what an air of authority the ring gave. [11]
Without money, save that which the generous Creoles had advanced upon his personal credit; without apparent resources; without authority, save that which the weight of his character exerted,--how could he prevent desertion? [9]
I have understood that the Bible is very well spoken of there, but it is not antiquated enough to be an authority. [4]
Would you advise that the authority be given him? [7]
It was absurd that Li Choo, the hireling, "Yellowphiz," as he had also been called, should here command a situation with the authority of one who ruled. [11]
Is it doubted that it would restore the national authority and national prosperity and perpetuate both indefinitely? [7]
He knew, also, that he could have no authority, save personality and success. [11]
I have said that cases might occur, when an examination might be proper; but I do not believe any such case has now occurred; and if it has, I should still be opposed to making an examination without legal authority. [7]
It was clear that a bold and deep purpose lay behind it all, and she could not tell how far-reaching it was, nor what it represented of rebellion against her father's authority. [11]
There he had ten miles of country under his command and a military guard of fifteen men, with authority to call out 2,000 more upon occasion. [5]
This would appear tempting to me also, were it not that in view of recent events in Mexico I am greatly impressed with the importance of re-establishing the national authority in western Texas as soon as possible. [7]
His companion was tall, alert, bronzed, grey-headed, with an eagle eye and a glance of authority. [11]
These quotations are taken from our highest authority on such questions, namely, Dr. Farr, in his paper 'On the Influence of Marriage on the Mortality of the French People,' read before the Nat. [1]
It was the symbol of authority in the wilderness. [11]
To be the supreme authority on anything is a satisfaction to self-love next door to the precious delusions of dementia. [6]
It might have sufficed, accepted as a book of revelation, for all the purposes of moral guidance, spiritual consolation, and systematized authority, if it had been a collection of precepts, a dry code of morals, an arsenal of judgments, and a treasury of promises. [4]
Please send me such written authority and telegraph me that it has been sent by mail. [7]
He had no strength to enforce discipline nor organize expeditions for supplies; besides, he was acting under a commission whose virtue had expired, and the mutinous spirits rebelled against his authority. [4]
In vain I strained my eyes for some one who might have authority with them. [9]
It was the stormy authority of the sword of the Lord of Gideon of the Old Testament which had drawn him into the fold of religion. [11]
All the following statements, given on the authority of these two naturalists, are taken from Rengger's 'Naturgesch. [1]
Thus, it is stated on good authority that "almost every animal becomes panic-struck at the sight of the rattlesnake, and seems at once deprived of the power of motion, or the exercise of its usual instinct of self-preservation. [6]
I do not state this on my own authority, I got it from a French physician of fame and repute--a man who was born in Paris, and had practiced there all his life. [5]
The captain could stand upon the hurricane deck, in the pomp of a very brief authority, and give him five or six orders while the vessel backed into the stream, and then that skipper's reign was over. [5]
I wish to stand erect before the country, as well as Judge Douglas, on this question of judicial authority; and therefore I add something to the authority in favor of my own position. [7]
Who has, in spite of the decision, declared Dred Scott free, and resisted the authority of his master over him? [7]
What man could speak more fitly, with more authority of "Character," than Emerson? [6]
Yet there was something between them which had its authority over their lives, overcoming even that maiden modesty which was in contrast to the bold, physical thing she had done in running the Carillon Rapids those centuries ago when she was young and glad-wistfully glad. [11]
Whether this be so or not, it must be owned that the name of Jonathan Edwards does at this day carry a certain authority with it for many persons, so that anything he believed gains for them some degree of probability from that circumstance. [6]

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