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My truck doesn't have sports-car driving dynamics but it has a kind of authoritative languor about it, just kind of suavely rolling along.
In the past it took months, if not years, for a papal legate to travel over the Alps to deliver authoritative Roman decisions.
It is certainly in his commercial interests to make his pronouncements sound as authoritative as possible.
An authoritative German voice crisped the air, asserting itself above the general drone.
The uneasy ceasefire between an authoritative church and an ascendant political class may be at an end.
This rich, authoritative biography is written by an American Russophile who knew him personally.
Authorities have yet to release an official death toll, and an authoritative figure may be weeks away.
There was a tradition that came from some other place and was genealogically authoritative.
Now he's presenting this series, being seen, as an African, as a more authentic and authoritative voice.
You got a sense that there was one person taking the heat, being accountable, being authoritative and being authentic.
But there are more authoritative and accurate sources on which to spend your money.
This was pretty much what one would expect, and people of my age generally regard the Times as an authoritative source of accurate news.
Although the Internet can be an excellent source of up to date and authoritative information much of it is unchecked and possibly unreliable.
Yet most students who enrolled in the new course saw the Internet as not only authoritative and reliable, but also comprehensive.
O'Curry's two Irish lecture series amount to an authoritative interpretation of Gaelic society and culture.
In an authoritative and factual manner this work examines all aspects of the biology and management of North American furbearers.
Equally as authoritative, it was the South boys who interlocked arms for the singing of the national anthem.
He probably meant to sound authoritative, but only succeeded in sounding ferrety.
Unfortunately, the text, which students will assume to be authoritative, displays the usual ineptitude with words in Greek.
He has to provide an authoritative, paternal perspective without being dismissive of the disparate viewpoints enclosed.
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I will call this the huxleyan doctrine, because Professor Huxley is its most express and most authoritative supporter.
Before the principle of judicial review was supported by a single authoritative decision, it had thus become a partisan issue!
It is a word of grave and authoritative import in the English language, which implies the testification of the truth!
I cannot get at the root of this word, 'martlet,' which is the really classical and authoritative English one.
There is no authoritative account of the construction of the Baltimore monument.
This so-called Statute of admeasurement has not been traced to any authoritative source.
Subsequently, Father Ydens and his notary have been quoted and requoted as authoritative witnesses.
Even Boston provinciality is a precious testimony to the authoritative personality of the city.
These works are valuable and authoritative, but their conclusiveness may be disputed.
But, placid as she was, my mother was authoritative, and could not endure any kind of constraint.
It is the authoritative sentence of the Church then on this difficult subject that we desiderate.
The four-cycle engines have been so far subjected to much more rigid and authoritative tests than those of the two-cycle.
She had not experimented to an authoritative extent with the desert pickles.
She had authoritative knowledge gleaned from reading between the lines of the very best text books on abnormal psychology.
Thus Mr hawsepipe, in as authoritative a tone as though he were the first luff of a 120-gun ship.
Accounting for impairments of long-lived assets is an area virtually devoid of authoritative guidance.
He counted very much on me, but he was authoritative and persistent.
In 1876, John Stubbs Parry was the first to present an authoritative treatise on abdominal pregnancy.
The answer is sharp and authoritative, being at once briefer and fuller.
The versions given are the definitive and authoritative ones.
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