| There is no indication that they received, or even sought, such information other than the utterly unconvincing say-so of Mr Davis. |
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| Yet this commitment does not require us to stop everything and neglect our own defense merely on the say-so of a single foreign government. |
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| He was in charge of the Bolshoi, this man, and no ballerina could get a job without his say-so. |
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| His intention was to get you lot to try, convict and hang me just on his say-so. |
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| I don't expect them to bounce a doctor on his ear just on my say-so, as much as I sometimes wish it were that easy. |
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| The UK government is planning the introduction of indefinite detention on a psychiatrist's say-so. |
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| Despite the fevered prattle of conspiracy theorists, the say-so of a few doesn't take America to war and certainly doesn't keep it there. |
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| Private individuals have the right to film their own property, and these tapes cannot be passed on without the say-so of the courts. |
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| He was accused of organising the press conference without the say-so of others in an effort to further ingratiate himself with the media. |
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| There can be few other industries in the land whose billions are so dependent on the say-so of such an esoteric and anonymous few. |
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| Neither can we transfer money from our accounts to the Philippines without the say-so of the bank. |
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| On the other side, hotels where the staff were disempowered, and couldn't bring me a newspaper without their boss' say-so were dreadful. |
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| If a player is to be rested it must be for the good of the team not on the say-so of the national coach. |
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| I don't think people in other departments want to give up the final say-so when it comes to files that they created or may want to refer to sometime in the future. |
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| You'll need to have experience in the industry to apply for either scholarship, but you'll need a producer's say-so to apply for the on-the-job training. |
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| She makes sure that she has say-so with the storylines as well. |
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| This is a field where, largely on a consultant paediatrician's say-so, families can be split asunder or parents can be convicted of very serious crimes against their children. |
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| Compston managed all this without the say-so of the Courtauld, which sent him a stinging letter. |
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| Two years later he tried to move to Switzerland but Swiss police quickly expelled him on the say-so, he believed, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. |
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| Marchman takes it as a given that MLB basing its case on the say-so of a sketchy Floridian drug-dealer is preposterous. |
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| We could only know the authors are eye witnesses by taking it on their say-so, that is, by believing them, or by believing a string of say-sos. |
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| The say-so of one small child is not enough to convict a man of murder in the absence of any other evidence. |
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| I wouldn't buy anything that expensive just on the say-so of a saleman. |
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