She managed to be both gentle and authoritative and I trusted her to bring you into the world. |
The uneasy ceasefire between an authoritative church and an ascendant political class may be at an end. |
You may regard some decisions as misconceived and wrong-headed, but we must have an authoritative structure to preserve the rule of law. |
In the past it took months, if not years, for a papal legate to travel over the Alps to deliver authoritative Roman decisions. |
An authoritative German voice crisped the air, asserting itself above the general drone. |
Clinic staff may be seen as authoritative sources of prevention information. |