Advertisement

authority

Definition for authority
Discover More

Example Sentences

Ramaswamy has still gone further, asking to retract appropriations to programs whose congressional authority has lapsed—which include resources like veterans’ health care—and basically do a sort of Twitter Files–style “exposé” of budgetary allowances.

From Slate

Let’s also be real here: Elon will probably hold much of the authority, as he is just too much of an egomaniac to cede any public control.

From Slate

That’s why, he thought, the immigration fight had to be taken up inside the conservation movement itself, by what is viewed as America’s most prominent environmental organization, an organization that would have the moral authority to bring difficult messages to the public.

From Salon

Northgate High School and Ormiston Endeavour Academy, previously Thurleston High School, are in negotiations with the authority about taking on more pupils.

From BBC

The authority said, alongside the cost concerns, it believed falling birth rates across Suffolk and nationally meant there could be too few students attending in the future, potentially making a new school "financially unsustainable."

From BBC

Advertisement

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement