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authoritative

If someone is authoritative, they seem to have power and are likely obeyed. If something is authoritative, it is based on all the most important information.

authoritative

(= important) having authority or ascendancy or influence an important official the captain's authoritative manner (= classical, definitive) of recognized authority or excellence the definitive work on Greece classical methods of navigation (= authorized, authorised) sanctioned by established authority an authoritative communique the authorized biography

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I therefore request that Mr. Gailey now submit authoritative proof that Mr. Kringle is the one and only Santa Claus.
Not one competent, authoritative proof that this man is Santa Claus.
It is efficient and authoritative.
A bit more authoritative, ladies, and less of the sensitive friend!
I think it's possible to be both: authoritative and friendly.
We become too authoritative.
Very authoritative, you know.
Authoritative look, curt manner and smooth transitions.
It's necessary that our authoritative doctors and experts should have their say.
With them on, you look authoritative and commanding.
I want to look authoritative AND honest.
Everything you say has to make you sound warm and friendly. Authoritative, of course, but affectionate. The father of the nation.
Could you support your argument with an authoritative, classic opinion?
An authoritative voice is very important in crowd control.
Authoritative sources in Washington claimed today that Colonel Alexander Vanin, convicted espionage agent, will be exchanged for General Ronald Brooks, pilot of the American aircraft shot down last week over the Eastern European People's Republic.
My, you certainly are authoritative, aren't you?
Authoritative, of course, but affectionate.
Authoritative, yet feminine.
It's like you just pasted together these bits and pieces. from your authoritative sources.
Raise a dog the same as a child, with simple, authoritative commands.
I don't wish to be authoritative, but Erko says now is our proper time for discussion of certain details.
There are so many overlapping and uncoordinated research organizations. it was felt that science should speak with one authoritative voice.
Then we'd have anarchy. A bit more authoritative, ladies, and less of the sensitive friend!
Good, an authoritative explanation.
Was he too authoritative?
Now, this one should be really authoritative.
I don't wish to be authoritative, my dear, but Master Erko says that now is our proper time - for discussion of certain details.
I had noticed how authoritative. and levelheaded you had been the other day at Evangelina's.
I shall produce an authoritative guide to the zinc bars and. I want to say hareems.

News and current affairs

He certainly has an authoritative personality and without doubt is more active on the international scene than some of his predecessors.
But almost all authoritative observers seem to agree that Brown is by far the most likely man to be the next Labour prime minister.
Our politicians are right (and not merely expedient) to insist that the current conflict is not with Islam - an extremely heterogeneous faith that recognizes no authoritative source of doctrinal interpretation.
In keeping with that tradition, Laudatio Si amounts to the strongest statement against harming animals ever made by a pope in a document as authoritative as an encyclical.
There is no one who can offer a timely and, above all, authoritative view on which forecast is the more compelling scenario.
In other terms, they don't want only a receptive ear, but a reassuring, authoritative, and competent figure.
The lack of an authoritative estimate of the total number of nuclear weapons attests to the need for greater transparency.
It is they, and they alone, who may assign authoritative meaning to their breasts, their bodies, and the difficult events related to them.
The most authoritative study puts civilian deaths from drone strikes between June 2004 and mid-September 2012 at 474-881, including 176 children.
So Saudi Arabia's people confront this key question: can an authoritative ruler emerge who will reunite the country in the progressive tradition of the late King Faisal?
During this second stage, eurozone authorities would play a much deeper and more authoritative role in the formulation of countries' budgetary policies.
Even with an authoritative IMF, the problems we face are daunting.
Many books have recently documented the games played by the climate-change deniers. Merchants of Doubt, a new book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway set for release in mid-2010, will be an authoritative account of their misbehavior.
Nevertheless, with both sides claiming the mantle of international law, authoritative legal decisions about these issues might perhaps push the parties to reach a lasting agreement.
Paradoxically, she made accountable and authoritative government possible again partly by curtailing the state's role in the economy.

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