Example sentences for: authority

How can you use “authority” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Felipe II’s royal decree was based entirely on geography: the idea being that Madrid, smack in the center of Iberia, would promote centralized authority over regional power bases in a newly unified Spain.

  • In a way, the Dalai Lama may even reinforce Chinese authority over Tibet.

  • Like most cities, Seattle has municipal laws that grant the mayor broad "police powers"--the authority to take the actions necessary to protect citizens and their property.

  • Congress would not have needed to add the certification provision to protect the presidential advisers if their records were not within the scope of GAO«s access authority.

  • Nobody will bother to compare the before-and-after budgetary authority, but few will fail to notice that a department has vanished.


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