(a.) Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding.
(a.) Having an air of authority; positive; dictatorial; peremptory; as, an authoritative tone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alongside that we want authoritative figures for the future."
(2) Authoritative guidelines are needed to guide clinical practice and to evaluate research.
(3) magazine is planning, for the first time in its 54-year history, an authoritative guide to British universities.
(4) Given the pressure on MP’s time, they tend to specialise on one or two countries if they pay any great attention to foreign affairs – only a very few, like the excellent Mike Gapes, can talk authoritatively about foreign policy across the piece.
(5) "I believe Australians have a right to know, a right to authoritative, independent and accurate information on climate change," Flannery told a press conference in Melbourne.
(6) The most authoritative account of Mitchell's side of his confrontation with the police was published by the Sunday Telegraph .
(7) The government wanted unclassified but authoritative intelligence material to advance its position.
(8) These people would make the US government’s authoritative count of people killed by police.
(9) As these are now being finalized and not yet approved for release, INR can only highlight the contents of this concise, authoritative document, which should become an indispensable handbook on AIDS for nurses and other health personnel when available.
(10) Liberal Democrat MP Andrew George, on the health select committee, told the BBC: "Most of the informed and authoritative commentators on this all agree this might result in a race to the bottom, and it certainly will.
(11) Human Rights Watch argued that “this authoritative report rightly condemns the horrific patterns of torture, arbitrary detention, and indefinite conscription that are prompting so many Eritreans to flee their country”.
(12) Nice describes itself as follows: “We provide independent, authoritative and evidence-based guidance on the most effective ways to prevent, diagnose and treat disease and ill health …” The medical profession should thus expect Nice to base its findings on full data disclosure and independently evaluated cost-benefit of statins.
(13) Neumann, the author of an authoritative study comparing prison regimes for terrorist prisoners in 15 countries, said there was a trade-off involved but he thought the current British dispersal system was probably the best way of tackling the issue.
(14) Led by Commander Steve Rodhouse, Operation Connect is trawling the Scotland Yard intelligence bank, and information from local authorities, schools and health authorites, to produce a centralised database of the most harmful gang members.
(15) There is no authoritative way to assess a government's record and, I guess, more time needs to pass for me fully to digest the history of the Labour years.
(16) This is the first of five reports on the nature and uses of PET that have been prepared for the American Medical Association's Council on Scientific Affairs by an authoritative panel.
(17) The purpose is to assist busy practitioners, students, researchers, or scholars to stay abreast of these items of progress in radiology that have recently achieved a substantial degree of authoritative acceptance.
(18) Islamic State (Isis), Syrian government forces, both sides in the conflict in eastern Ukraine and Saudi jets attacking targets in Yemen have all used cluster bombs and rockets banned by international treaty, according to an authoritative new report .
(19) The Perugia Division of Cancer Research (DCR) owes much to HLS because he was always ready with advice and help of every nature and because the Perugia Quadrennial International Conferences on Cancer (PQICC) had their beginning through his will and always enjoyed his authoritative approval and aid.
(20) The PSIS is a 68-item Likert-type questionnaire which asks patients to specify the skills which they believe belong to the psychiatrist's authoritative domain.
Scripture
Definition:
(n.) Anything written; a writing; a document; an inscription.
(n.) The books of the Old and the new Testament, or of either of them; the Bible; -- used by way of eminence or distinction, and chiefly in the plural.
(n.) A passage from the Bible;; a text.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you don't know the scriptures you can't understand why.
(2) "The Remembrance Sunday Service at the Cenotaph has always contained prayers and readings from scripture, and the fact that it continues to be so central a part of our public life would suggest that it is meeting people's pastoral needs," said the Venerable Peter Eagles, archdeacon for the army.
(3) Unofficial Guardian scorecard Pacquiao 10 - 9 Bradley Manny's mom is getting to work in supporting her son - there's a lot of scripture and crosses involved - a spectacle.
(4) However, the age at which a mother has sole responsibility for her children is determined by scripture.
(5) It also tells us – on the firm foundation of Holy Scriptures – that policies intended to slow the pace of climate change represent a "dangerous expansion of government control over private life".
(6) Phil Johnson explains the continuing faith in these stories by reference to scripture: “The Bible says people like fables.
(7) The key point here is that while the words of scripture are fixed and unchangeable they are always subject to human interpretation, and interpretations may vary according to time, place and social conditions.
(8) The way I read scripture … I’m not sure what their values are and why they want to exclude, if we’re called to love one another and even love an enemy,” she said.
(9) There’s a passage in the scriptures that says, ‘Let the work that I do speak for me.’ “And Jeb’s record speaks for him.
(10) He later studied creative writing and religious studies: "It was scriptural interpretation, mainly, reading the Bible in different translations.
(11) In such a way, Poussin compressed his consummate knowledge of Rome's buildings, artworks and landscapes, and his deep, careful reading of scripture, epics, histories and science, into forms that would pass permanently out of his sight – since after 1642, he made no move to visit his native land again.
(12) That included Bob Jones University, a fundamentalist college in South Carolina that claimed a scriptural basis for segregation.
(13) My comments that you may have read are from the holy scriptures, and this is what I live from.
(14) John quotes him as writing in a letter to a friend: "By the end of the 80s I had definitely come to the conclusion that Scripture was not dealing with the predicament of persons whom we should recognise as homosexual by nature.
(15) Trouble was that, according to the scriptures, lending was a sin.
(16) The traveling religious workers who died, or were injured, would visit immigrant Sikh communities in America to help with duties such as reciting of the scriptures at the gurdwaras, and perform rituals in other community events like marriages.
(17) This is the most exceptional nation in the history of the world.” Carson said he had leaned on scripture to weather tempests on the campaign trail.
(18) The conference passed a resolution “rejecting homosexual practice as incompatible with Scripture” but also calling on “all our people to minister pastorally and sensitively to all irrespective of sexual orientation and to condemn irrational fear of homosexuals”.
(19) Some traditionalists fear the act of participating in the “shared conversations”, which are aimed at “good disagreement” within the church, implies an acceptance that differing interpretations of biblical scripture are possible.
(20) C of E fears talks on gay rights could end global Anglican communion Read more But the leaders of six African provinces are expected to walk out in opposition to any interpretation of the scriptures that could lead to greater acceptance of homosexuality and same-sex marriage, causing a de facto split between conservatives and liberals.