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  • I am surprised that an officer (who hopefully is not a jobsworth) is not able to exercise a similar amount of discretion and common sense in exercising his authority,

    Speedwagon. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

  • By also attaching what many in the nineteenth century saw as Voltaire's proto-positivism to his celebrated campaigns to eradicate priestly and aristo-monarchical authority through the debunking of the “irrational superstitions” that appeared to anchor such authority,

    Voltaire Shank, JB 2009

  • The Bishop looked steadily at the cure, and repeated with authority,

    Les Miserables 2008

  • “Nay,” replied the archer, secretly not displeased at seeing De Walton show some little jealousy of his own authority,

    Castle Dangerous 2008

  • Arbitrary and capricious application of authority,

    Authority 2007

  • In order to set all his vile plots in motion, nothing was wanting, from the first, but to prevail upon me, either by force or fraud, to throw myself into his power: and when this was effected, nothing less than the intervention of the paternal authority,

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Another was her genitalia, which, according to one authority,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • Nevertheless, we continue to talk with the Senate to try to reach an agreement about how to have a trade adjustment agreement that will allow for passage of the trade promotion authority,

    CNN Transcript May 3, 2002 2002

  • Another was her genitalia, which, according to one authority,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • In August 2001, the leader of the Anjouan authority,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

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