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Example sentences for "authorities"

Lexicographically close words:
authoritate; authoritative; authoritatively; authoritativeness; authoritie; authority; authorization; authorizations; authorize; authorized
  1. To accommodate this the Russian postal authorities once established a post house on the middle of the lake, where horses were kept for travelers.

  2. The Romans took their ideas from the Greeks as a basis to work upon; among their best authorities Vitruvius may be classed.

  3. The chief authorities for Saxon arms and armour are (a) the illuminated manuscripts preserved in the British Museum, the Bodleian Library, &c.

  4. He applied to the authorities in Dublin for an order for 'substitution of service.

  5. O'Fay had no claim except as tenant from year to year, I have no hesitation in stating that, although in point of law on the authorities I have referred to, and particularly the case of Felling v.

  6. Mr. Trench himself shall be the historian, writing to the authorities when the occurrences were all fresh in his mind.

  7. Mr. Prendergast has published a number of letters, written at the time by the English authorities and others, from which some interesting matters may be gleaned.

  8. The men found themselves under the orders of delegates of the emperor, not of quasi-independent authorities who enlisted them as personal followers rather than as units in the military establishment of the empire.

  9. If you want to stir up trouble, tell the State authorities when you get ashore.

  10. The authorities here will be equal to handling you if you try to buck against them.

  11. Then tell the authorities here, and get some troops sent up.

  12. Evidently the author has studied his authorities (and more particularly Mr. PEPYS) with a praiseworthy diligence.

  13. There would be less injustice in aiding new enterprises by bounties; but the proper authorities to decide how much money should be voted for such purposes are the cities and towns.

  14. How well I have selected my authorities the reader can judge.

  15. The suspicion of the Swiss postal authorities had been aroused, and special instructions had been sent that the bags were to be delivered up only to their rightful owners.

  16. But it had not been explained to the authorities at Innsbruck how they were to know the proper owners.

  17. It was soon manifest that the companies of volunteers would go with the "committee," and that the public authorities could not rely on them for aid or defense.

  18. Of course it was Haskins's duty to have defended his post to the death; but up to that time the national authorities in Washington had shown such pusillanimity, that the officers of the army knew not what to do.

  19. In payment for the lumber and the work of contractors, the city authorities paid scrip in even sums of one hundred, five hundred, one thousand, and five thousand dollars.

  20. Still, there were a good many citizens who contended that, if the civil authorities were properly sustained by the people at large, they could and would execute the law.

  21. The war still continued in Mexico, and the navy authorities resolved to employ their time with the capture of Mazatlan and Guaymas.

  22. Register--The record of a ship's ownership and nationality as listed with the maritime authorities of a country.

  23. He has copied my references as the list of his own authorities (MSS.

  24. Jeffrey has offered to make oath that it is mine, and another great critic has tendered his affidavit ex contrario; so that these authorities have divided the Gude Town.

  25. The last relation I shall give you, though equally true, is not so well identified as the two former, with regard to the scene; but as the best authorities give it for Alloway, I shall relate it.

  26. The authorities at Scotland Yard had got wind of the plot, and sought to put the governor of the prison, and the magistrates who controlled it, on their guard.

  27. There had been a great newspaper discussion about the Captain, and the Times had taken a vigorous part in it against the Admiralty authorities and in favour of Captain Coles.

  28. In this account the whole matter was turned into ridicule, and the authorities were said to have been hoaxed, or carried away by their own excited imaginations.

  29. He observed everything that happened, and it was his evidence, given subsequently at Lancaster Assizes, that saved many innocent persons, who had been hunted down by the cruel authorities of the day, from the punishment of transportation.

  30. To Sir William he showed the official telegram that had just been received, all other messages having been stopped by the authorities in Dublin.

  31. He at first proclaimed his intention of ignoring the college authorities altogether.

  32. The authorities insisted on the gown being worn by all under-graduates.

  33. Cambridge, 1906), where citations of the original authorities will also be found.

  34. Eichhorn is regarded as one of the principal authorities on German constitutional law.

  35. There are in London twelve local authorities and fourteen companies carrying on electricity supply undertakings.

  36. Vigorous opposition was organized against the bill by the local authorities and it did not pass.

  37. The military authorities can close the débitants and restaurants, but they cannot close the épiceries.

  38. You see the war had caught them unawares, and at first, no doubt for wise military reasons, the authorities discouraged flight.

  39. I am not at all sure that the authorities wanted to have them there.

  40. Only the few who were brave enough to attempt it trained (if my authorities are reliable) in England, and no doubt it was owing in large measure to them that a movement for re-organising the hospitals was set on foot.

  41. The people and the authorities are well aware of the frequent cases of brigandage; they know who the brigands are; but, nevertheless, everybody is left to his own bravery to defend himself.

  42. I obtained also firmans, addressed to the authorities on my route through Turkish territory, in all of which I was mentioned as the traveller Reshid Effendi.

  43. The authorities seem to be less indulgent, for I was told that the governor of Tebriz, to the horror of the whole world, condemned a Seid who had committed robbery to death by fire.

  44. The authorities did not trust me as implicitly as the people did.

  45. Those papers will be slow to notice the facts, authorities and admissions which it cites, to prove the failure of their form of society.

  46. There came into my mind while thus occupied all that the authorities had said in reference to burglars; and when, after a lapse of five minutes, the voices again became audible, I knew exactly what was expected of me.

  47. I had gathered from the authorities I had consulted that heroes, under these circumstances, got over distances in a shorter time than it takes to record it.

  48. Uncle Felix looked "bursting with it," as though he could hardly keep it in, and even the Lesser Authorities had as much as they could do to prevent it flying out of them in sudden sentences.

  49. Mother had gone to lie down with a headache; Aunt Emily was visiting the poor with a basket; Daddy was inaccessible in his study; all Authorities were doing the dull things Authorities have to do.

  50. The trio loved them according to their just deserts; they grasped that the Authorities did their best for them.

  51. And the effect of his presence upon the other Authorities was significant.

  52. And next day Maria, lost to the Authorities for over an hour, was at length discovered by the forbidden pigsties in a fearful state of mess, but very pleased and happy about something.

  53. The Authorities might look and call for ever without finding them.

  54. Not that the Authorities admitted or even were aware of it, but that the children saw them differently.

  55. Catholic authorities in the course of the two preceding centuries, or at the end of the second, and received and used in most parts of Christendom.

  56. Collection of Apostolic Canons is acknowledged at that date, this Collection is acknowledged by competent authorities to be that Apostolic record at the end of the fifth.

  57. The authorities at the specified date (A.

  58. Volney, men of name and ability, and for various reasons preferable as authorities to writers of the present day.

  59. Numerous authorities state, however, that Margaret spent most of her time in study with her preceptors and in the devotional exercises which then had so large a place in the training of princesses.

  60. Other authorities have endorsed this view; but M.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "authorities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.