Authorities

Examples

• All authorities agree that that discernment of relationships is the genuinely intellectual matter; hence, the educative matter. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The authorities thought differently, however. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Chinese authorities kill thousands of innocent people on the most frivolous pretexts. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• They are better authorities than I am, for they know what virtue is, and I don't. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Tests on a considerable scale were made by order of the naval authorities. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Grand Gulf was accordingly given up as a base and the authorities at Washington were notified. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• With federal, state, and municipal authorities in existence, with courts, district attorneys, police all operating, they create another arm of prosecution. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Then for a week he taught in Jerusalem, surrounded by a crowd of followers who made his arrest by the authorities difficult. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• From various authorities I have culled information concerning Tiberias. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The authorities are excellent at amassing facts, though they do not always use them to advantage. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Now, let us see what the Indians did, after the prison authorities had allowed them to receive their letter. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• If I wanted other authorities for Jarndyce and Jarndyce, I could rain them on these pages, to the shame of--a parsimonious public. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• No doubt it was very weak--it always IS very weak, some authorities hold--but he loved the girl. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• At least you cannot escape from these two witnesses; and they can produce you before any public authorities, or before hundreds of people! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• There are almost a hundred recommendations to various authorities--Federal, State, county, city, police, educational and others. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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