authoritatively

We want to make sure that you know what we know as authoritatively, as responsibly as we have it.

CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2007 2007

Hereby the community or whole body of the faithful, even to the meanest member, are vested from Christ with full power and authority actually to discharge and execute all acts of order and jurisdiction without exception: e.g. To preach the word authoritatively, dispense the sacraments, ordain their officers, admonish offenders, excommunicate the obstinate and incorrigible, and absolve the penitent.

The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London

"'Enry," she called authoritatively, "stop teasing those girls, Hi say.

Big Brother 1897

The divinity of Jesus Christ is indicated by the specific names and titles authoritatively applied to Him.

Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern James Edward Talmage 1897

People call authoritatively for the 'Joy of Life' and theatrical managers call for farces, as though the Joy of Life lay in being foolish, and in describing people who each and every one are suffering from St. Vitus 'dance or idiocy.

Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger August Strindberg 1880

It is the fashion in this country, and a very bad fashion, when we find a remarkable portrait with no name authoritatively attached to it, to christen it at random after some eminent man, and there it remains to perplex or mislead.

English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 James Anthony Froude 1856

One word authoritatively declaring man's immortality, a word which by infallible token I could know to be a word from the Supreme, would to me be worth infinitely more than all the conjectures, hopes, and reasonings of all the philosophers.

Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra William Ware 1824

And when the Supreme Court ruled in 2006 that the Geneva Conventions, which broadly prohibit all mistreatment of wartime detainees, applied to al-Qaeda, the OLC lawyers wrote still another secret opinion recommending that President Bush issue an executive order that would "authoritatively" establish that the CIA's tactics did not violate the laws of war — simply because the president said so.

The Torture Memos: The Case Against the Lawyers Cole, David 2009

Incidentally, that neat little dirty trick the KMT played with former AIT director Doug Paal on Saturday, where they brought Paal in to speak "authoritatively" on the Green Card issue, illuminates some of the connections between international capital and the KMT: Paal is now a vice chairman at JP Morgan.

Archive 2008-03-01 Michael Turton 2008

I mean, four and a half years into war, one would think that everybody could learn the basics -- but many, including plenty of people who comment authoritatively or "authoritatively", still haven't made the effort to understand the situation, so those who have deserve credit.

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