(n.) Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority of a court.
(n.) Government; the persons or the body exercising power or command; as, the local authorities of the States; the military authorities.
(n.) The power derived from opinion, respect, or esteem; influence of character, office, or station, or mental or moral superiority, and the like; claim to be believed or obeyed; as, an historian of no authority; a magistrate of great authority.
(n.) That which, or one who, is claimed or appealed to in support of opinions, actions, measures, etc.
(n.) Testimony; witness.
(n.) A precedent; a decision of a court, an official declaration, or an opinion, saying, or statement worthy to be taken as a precedent.
(n.) A book containing such a statement or opinion, or the author of the book.
(n.) Justification; warrant.
Example Sentences:
(1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
(2) Without medication atypical ventricular tachycardia develops, in the author's opinion, most probably when bradycardia has persisted for a prolonged period.
(3) The authors have presented in two previous articles the graphic solutions resembling Tscherning ellipses, for spherical as well as for aspherical ophthalmic lenses free of astigmatism or power error.
(4) The analysis is based on the personal experience of the authors with 117 cases and the review of 223 cases published in the literature.
(5) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
(6) These authors, therefore, conclude that this modified surgical approach is a viable alternative to the previously described procedures for resistant metatarsus adductus.
(7) The authors empirically studied the self-medication hypothesis of drug abuse by examining drug effects and motivation for drug use in 494 hospitalized drug abusers.
(8) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
(9) The authors report 4 new cases of heterotopic pancreas in children with prepyloric, jejunal, Meckel's diverticulum and mesenteric localization.
(10) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
(11) For his lone, perilous journey that defied the US occupation authorities, Burchett was pilloried, not least by his embedded colleagues.
(12) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
(13) Different therapeutic success rates have been reported by various authors who used the same combination of therapy.
(14) No report can be taken seriously if its authors weren’t even in Yemen to conduct investigations.” The UN team was not given permission to enter the country.
(15) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
(16) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
(17) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
(18) The authors report an ocular luxation of a four-year-old girl after a bicycle accident.
(19) For the case described by the author primary tearing of the chiasma due to sudden applanation of the skull in the frontal region with burstfractures in the anterior cranial fossa is assumed.
(20) Midtrimester abortion by the dilatation and evacuation (D&E) method has generated controversy among health care providers; many authorities insist that this procedure should be performed only by a small group of experts.
Enjoin
Definition:
(v. t.) To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.
(v. t.) To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.
(v. t.) To join or unite.
Example Sentences:
(1) We still have at our disposal the rational interpretive skills that are the legacy of humanistic education, not as a sentimental piety enjoining us to return to traditional values or the classics but as the active practice of worldly secular rational discourse.
(2) The general dentist Instruction enjoins on every dentist, in accordance with science and tested experience, to advise and, as far as possible, to inform the patient about the treatment the patient's condition requires.
(3) In the intervening year of can-kicking, you could argue that nothing's changed in terms of the options offered, from Brussels and Frankfurt, to Athens: they are still cordially enjoined to stick with the programme or leave the euro, and that programme is still one that nobody with a real choice would ever vote for.
(4) After recognition of the Sjögren's syndrome and a pseudolymphoma appearance, the risk of lymphomatous evolution enjoin a clinical close attention.
(5) Scottish Rite, its physicians, staff, agents, and employees are enjoined from taking any action inconsistent with this order.
(6) However, a previously approved University of California field trial involving the release of genetically-modified, frost-resistant bacteria is still enjoined pending the District Court's approval of an environmental assessment produced by NIH.
(7) The large amount and variety of group psychotherapy practiced today enjoins us to determine its morality, that is, its rightness or wrongness.
(8) In reality, the travel ban remains largely enjoined,” Schlanger said.
(9) Two California courts, one a local court and one federal court, have enjoined the release of footage based on pending lawsuits and the potentially illegal activities of CMP.
(10) All doctors are enjoined to audit, yet there is concern that many audits do not improve patient care.
(11) Collegiality was enjoined by the Second Vatican Council which ended its work in 1965, but only very partially implemented under Paul and the charismatic, but autocratic, John Paul.
(12) Marriage is positively enjoined and vigorously encouraged.
(13) Gandhi described Section 377 as "an archaic, repressive and unjust law that infringed on basic human rights" and said that [the Indian] constitution "has given us a great legacy … of liberalism of openness, that enjoin us to combat prejudice and discrimination of any kind".
(14) And he has insisted the country physically clean itself up, choosing Gandhi’s birthday to launch the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, or Clean India Mission, enjoining his countrymen to sweep, tidy and beautify parks, streets and public places.
(15) The author enjoins social workers to maintain social work's values and ethics as they continue the roles of administrator, clinician, teacher, learner, researcher, and, most important, advocate for social policy and change.
(16) The real story behind Shell's climate change rhetoric Read more Here’s the backstory: In May, Shell convinced a federal judge in Alaska to enjoin Greenpeace from protesting too closely to Shell’s Arctic drilling vessels .
(17) A Michigan circuit court made permanent a temporary injunction enjoining defendant Jack Kevorkian, M.D., from implementing any device to assist people who wish to commit suicide.
(18) There is nothing in our constitution that enjoins us to respect the head of state, or to genuflect before him.
(19) "It would therefore have been deeply satisfying, on many levels, to litigate our case to the end and win, enjoining Google from scanning books and forcing it to destroy the scans it had made.
(20) Every dreamer of CMDs in our series had felt enjoined by the mother (in most cases with the father's collusion) not to see and regard her clearly and not to be an accurately reflecting mirror for her.