(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.
Headship
Definition:
(n.) Authority or dignity; chief place.
Example Sentences:
(1) Vic Goddard, principal of Passmores academy in neighbouring Essex, the school featured in the TV series Educating Essex, who recently published a book about the joys of headship, The Best Job In The World, says the document spells out what is going on across the country.
(2) His reputation as a transformative school leader was founded in large part on his headship of the Mossbourne academy in east London.
(3) Far from being unsuited to headships, he says, PE teachers are among the first to put themselves forward.
(4) He got most of his jobs at ridiculously early ages: a deputy headship at 26, a headship at 29, chief executive at 36.
(5) His first headship was at St Bonaventure's Roman Catholic school in Newham, which he transformed from a struggling school into an outstanding one.
(6) Sir Anthony Seldon, vice-chancellor, University of Buckingham First is the promise to set up a national headship college that trains school leaders, because that’s the most important problem in education at the moment – the quality of leadership.
(7) A much-sought-after teacher of invaluable experience is appointed by a Scottish local authority to a small rural school that would have had to close if Mr MacIsaac hadn't been available to take up the headship.
(8) The analysis is based on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and uses event-history analysis to estimate transitions into female headship and economic dependence.
(9) Recent trends in rates of household headship and headship differentials by sex and color are examined within the context of a model that expresses the likelihood of heading an independent household as a function of age, marital status, parental status, and individual money income.
(10) The school's headteacher Lindsey Snowdon, who co-founded the school with her husband Andrew, resigned in October after a follow-up Ofsted inspection failed to find any improvement and reported: "It is essential that a credible professional is appointed to the headship without delay."
(11) She then became deputy head at her old school before putting her name forward for the Cheltenham headship.
(12) The conferring of state headship is an exclusive Anglican ritual, steeped in the Henrician Reformation.
(13) And Sherry Zand, who was appointed to lead IES Breckland School in Brandon, Suffolk, which was rated inadequate this month , despite never having had experience of deputy headship, left after just one year.
(14) I should feel excitement that 18 months of relentless planning is about to become a reality; that I am embarking on my first year of headship.
(15) The heir to the throne rules nothing, being heir only to titular headship of state.
(16) His first headship was at St Bonaventure's, a boys' Catholic school in Newham, east London.
(17) Most governors only recruit a head once.” He says about 75% of headship vacancies posted at the right time of the year are still filled through advertising.
(18) Half are jobs that will not be advertised when people leave, including two assistant headships; the other half will be redundancies including a teacher, reading assistants for primary children, a family link worker, an education welfare officer and a full-time counsellor whom Gardiner employed to support the mental health of vulnerable pupils.
(19) Headteacher Leslie Church said recent events had played a part in his decision to resign: "I truly believe that the school is entering a new phase, whether we agree with it or not, and I too want to embark on a new stage in my career after 25 years of headship."
(20) Nothing, not even the NPQH (National Professional Qualification for Headship), really prepared me for the daily acts of courage I see taken by my students.