How To Use Authoritatively In A Sentence
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A judge should comport himself authoritatively [ with dignity ].
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It is impossible to isolate parts of the system of government to which the label may authoritatively be attached.
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she spoke authoritatively
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BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic _bricke_, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French _brique_, originally a "broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic _brikan_, to break), a kind of artificial stone generally made of burnt clay, and largely used as a building material.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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They post authoritatively on topics like media coverage of health issues and the use and abuse of statistics, and happily their quantitative bent is accompanied by a joy in language, particularly of the so-bad-it's-good variety.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Hereby the community or whole body of the faithful, even to the meanest member, are vested from Christ with full power and authority actually to discharge and execute all acts of order and jurisdiction without exception: e.g. To preach the word authoritatively, dispense the sacraments, ordain their officers, admonish offenders, excommunicate the obstinate and incorrigible, and absolve the penitent.
The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
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One word authoritatively declaring man's immortality, a word which by infallible token I could know to be a word from the Supreme, would to me be worth infinitely more than all the conjectures, hopes, and reasonings of all the philosophers.
Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra
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And when the Supreme Court ruled in 2006 that the Geneva Conventions, which broadly prohibit all mistreatment of wartime detainees, applied to al-Qaeda, the OLC lawyers wrote still another secret opinion recommending that President Bush issue an executive order that would "authoritatively" establish that the CIA's tactics did not violate the laws of war — simply because the president said so.
The Torture Memos: The Case Against the Lawyers
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The divinity of Jesus Christ is indicated by the specific names and titles authoritatively applied to Him.
Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
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The hallmark of law is the obligation to act in line with norms authoritatively determined.
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There would still be a public institutional complex ruling authoritatively on the common affairs of the community.
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People call authoritatively for the 'Joy of Life' and theatrical managers call for farces, as though the Joy of Life lay in being foolish, and in describing people who each and every one are suffering from St. Vitus 'dance or idiocy.
Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger
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‘I bet that's a decoy car,’ says one local authoritatively.
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To instruct or urge authoritatively; command.
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I mean, four and a half years into war, one would think that everybody could learn the basics -- but many, including plenty of people who comment authoritatively or "authoritatively", still haven't made the effort to understand the situation, so those who have deserve credit.
09/27/2007
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It is impossible to isolate parts of the system of government to which the label may authoritatively be attached.
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To instruct or urge authoritatively; command.
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I can't speak for all implementations and in fact can speak authoritatively only for the ones used by the fuzzballs, which are scattered all over the swamps.
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Particularly strong on the legside, he also cut and drove authoritatively.
Times, Sunday Times
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Incidentally, that neat little dirty trick the KMT played with former AIT director Doug Paal on Saturday, where they brought Paal in to speak "authoritatively" on the Green Card issue, illuminates some of the connections between international capital and the KMT: Paal is now a vice chairman at JP Morgan.
Archive 2008-03-01
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In a jocular vein he speaks about the raw deal meted out to directors by certain half-baked specialists ‘who speak authoritatively’ about cinema.
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That's all right," the doctor placated sharply and authoritatively.
THE END OF THE STORY
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In a jocular vein he speaks about the raw deal meted out to directors by certain half-baked specialists ‘who speak authoritatively’ about cinema.
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In so doing, he rejects the historicist injunction of authoritatively re-enacting the extremity of the past in favor of a modernist staging of the uncertain history of the present.
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The late science-fiction author Lester Del Rey was accustomed to declaring authoritatively on every subject from oenology to onomancy.
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This bombilation aroused the house, and a waiter entered the room flourishing a napkin authoritatively.
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He has a self-assured manner that borders on smugness, and his deep voice fills the sanctuary authoritatively as he emphatically delivers his sermon.
American Grace
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Despite all differences of approach, he himself wrote only two years ago, "Ronald Syme wrote superbly and authoritatively when he used prosopography to clarify a revolutionary movement ” the upsurge of new social strata under Augustus" (English Historical Review, 1973, p. 115; compare his review of The Roman Revolution reprinted in Secondo Contributo alla Storia degli Studi Classici, 1960, 207 f. and his remarks in Studi Romani 14, 1966, 1-3).
Bearing Gifts
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Wherefore -- Because of my love to thee, I prefer to "beseech," rather than "enjoin," or authoritatively command.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Is this a sidebar conference on something the attorney general has so authoritatively stated his position on?
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It is also true that the reasons authoritatively given for the wars, as opposed to those concocted by their left-wing supporters, were a tissue of lies.
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‘It's the cape,’ said Barnabus authoritatively, deftly unclasping the offending article from Alice's neck.
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'Enry," she called authoritatively, "stop teasing those girls, Hi say.
Big Brother
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It is the fashion in this country, and a very bad fashion, when we find a remarkable portrait with no name authoritatively attached to it, to christen it at random after some eminent man, and there it remains to perplex or mislead.
English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4
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I might as well declare my out-and-out fandom at the outset, born of the way each film accumulates authoritatively into its meaning through elisions and congruencies that are virtually baroque in their coiled vitality.
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I consider that my seeing the man those years glimpsd for me, beyond all else, that inner spirit and formthe unquestionable charm and vivacity, but intrinsic sophistication and artificialitycrystallizing rapidly upon the English stage and literature at and after Shaksperes time, and coming on accumulatively through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the beginning, fifty or forty years ago, of those disintegrating, decomposing processes now authoritatively going on.
The Old Bowery. November Boughs
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We want to make sure that you know what we know as authoritatively, as responsibly as we have it.
CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2007
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He used it to sum up the persuasive power of authoritatively made numeric presentations to a largely innumerate public.
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That option has been authoritatively debunked, but Cameron is not even going that far - he is only pledging to tackle the Human Rights Act. But its main effect is to make the ECHR judicable in the UK.
Gesture politics
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Are we one step closer to the killer blog-support app that does all the back-room reader / feeder / bookmarker / linktracker stuff authoritatively & in one spot?
Archive 2006-02-01
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Paltering with "God's truth," then, is playing fast and loose with the metonyms that may be interpreted authoritatively only by the patriarchy.
