How do you use Authority in a sentence? See 20 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like authorization or assurance, plus the exact meaning.
Authority in a sentence
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Authority meaning
- Power or right to make or enforce rules, give orders, or impose obligation; or a position having such power or right.
- Persons, regarded collectively, who occupy official positions of power; police or law enforcement.
- A reliable, definitive source of information on a subject.
Synonyms of Authority
Example sentences (20)
The Columbia Housing Authority Board Chair says it’s a new day for the Housing Authority with Mathews at the helm.
Once more, the authority of the community administrator is greater than the authority of the group administrator.
The port authority (VO Chidambaranar Port Authority) port has allocated a 501-acre plot for the green hydrogen project.
He added the release of prisoners was "not in the authority of the US" but "in the authority of the Afghan government".
In response, the authority’s chairman Haris Poyadjis said his authority would have to conduct “a restart”.
The authority estimates the work will cost £800,000, funded through the Tees Valley Combined Authority Indigenous Growth Fund.
Families told Amnesty International that they are at the mercy of militias and that “no authority is above Radaa’s authority”.
I suppose there is some justification that would give a governor the authority, or a local official the authority, to do that.
Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority staff will now serve in an administrative role for the Las Vegas Stadium Authority.
The bench said that this exactly is the question, as the disaster management authority of the state has authority in healthcare.
The shuttle bus would be funded by the Port Authority, rather than the MTA, according to Port Authority spokesperson Tom Topousis.
Burge argued that just because Wiebe had the authority to seize the woman’s alcohol did not mean he had the authority to use force.
The Elstree councillor was the authority’s leader when the authority agreed to increase its share of council tax for the 2023/24 year.
Back of the authority of our laws is the authority of the Supreme Judge of the World, to whom we still appeal for their final justification.
In addition, up to 60 authority police officers and 300 city police officers are on duty in the subway per shift, according to the authority.
When a tax authority won’t accept the legal tender it controls, that tax authority has become a “crew”, shaking down down people and businesses.
If he does not have the authority to close the border, then he did not have the authority to implement his first action, that of opening the border.
Debi Durham, director of the Iowa Economic Development Authority and the Iowa Finance Authority, who spoke Oct. 3, 2024 at Bluebird Hill near Atlantic.
Starting Sunday, July 12, the authority will receive applications for renewing documents that expired in March and April, the authority said on Saturday.
Also a factor, and perhaps the decisive one, is that in a desire to maintain secrecy, the military aviation authority kept the civilian authority in the dark.
Phrases with authority
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with authority
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the authority 85×
- authority to 37×
- authority of 35×
- authority and 18×
- authority over 15×
- local authority 13×
- authority is 12×
- development authority 11×
- authority in 11×
- authority has 10×
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