authority

01. The doctor is a well-known [authority] on tropical diseases.

02. [Authorities] now believe the murderer may not have acted alone.

03. He has a very [authoritative] way of speaking, but he doesn't really know what he is talking about.

04. He is a well-known [authority] on the language used by bees to communicate the location of food.

05. We don't have the [authority] to kick kids out of school unless they have been especially violent.

06. The police action was [authorized] by the mayor himself.

07. Prior [authorization] is required before the police can enter a house to look for drugs.

08. There is a Yugoslavian proverb which states that if you wish to know what a man is, place him in [authority].

09. A. J. Ayer once observed that no moral system can rest solely on [authority].

10. Before Galileo's time, scholars tried to resolve questions of science by referring to [authority].

11. I'm not allowed to [authorize] any purchases. You'll have to talk to my boss.

12. The island of Greenland came under Denmark's [authority] in the early 1800s.

13. In September 2004, Congress prepared to vote on a resolution [authorizing] President George W. Bush to wage war in Iraq.

14. In Vietnam, the husband and father is the head of the household and he has the final [authority] in all family matters.

15. Studies show that women are much less likely than men to occupy positions of [authority] at work.

16. In 1942, Japanese-Canadians were branded 'enemy aliens' by the highest [authority] in the land.

17. In Great Britain alone, more than 2.7 million live animal experiments were [authorized] in 2002.

18. Democratic government is based on the consent of the governed and represents an attempt to make [authority] accountable to the people.

19. For many years, the people of Chile were forced to endure a strongly [authoritarian] military rule.

20. President George Washington [authorized] the minting of the first U.S. coins in 1792.

21. In July of 1536, the [authority] of the Pope was declared void in England by an act of Parliament.

22. Turkmenistan continues to suffer under the rule of its [authoritarian] ex-Communist regime.

23. The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that the will of the people shall be the basis of the [authority] of government.

24. The Koran states that men have [authority] over women because God has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them.

25. Studies show that people with highly [authoritarian] attitudes tend to be more prejudiced against others than the general population.

26. In the thirteenth century, the church was seen as the supreme [authority], not only in regards to faith and morals, but also in intellectual and political affairs.