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Some of it -- most of it is unauthoritative, that is to say, it is coming from people who heard from somebody about something or believe there might be a situation that could be characterized as encouraging from our standpoint.

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But for all this he incurs that penalty of seeming factitious and unauthoritative, which is always the result of an artist's attempt to project himself into an atmosphere in which he has not a transmitted and inherited property.

Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) Henry James 1879

With the undistinguished dancing and unauthoritative presence of Elisabeth Holowchuk, unbecomingly costumed by Holly Hynes, the eccentric Balanchinean exercise sinks like a pebble in a puddle.

A Company in Progress Robert Greskovic 2011

On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them?

Think Progress » Virginia attorney general instructs state colleges to stop protecting gay students from discrimination. 2010

Dogmatic beliefs originate from some personal or cultural source outside the Bible, but because the Bible is generally though of as authoritative, Dogmatic-behaving people use it as a tool to lend credibility to their otherwise unsupported and unauthoritative ideas or principles.

Bible Study: Who Wrote the Gospels? | Mind on Fire 2007

Nan's emphasis reflected so directly on her own condition of unauthoritative spinsterhood.

The Governess Julie Mathilde Lippmann

The result of this fatal misuse of the words "Shoot him!" as a form of argument -- which unauthoritative should be made a penal offence -- was that the workers really feared that such irresponsible individuals if given the power would really carry out the threat, and determined to anticipate the danger by a protest in arms.

Six days of the Irish Republic A Narrative and Critical Account of the Latest Phase of Irish Politics

It was simply a provision for constantly recurring arbitration, obtained by reference to a changeable, and practically unauthoritative board of judges.

The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

It is true that rumours of the transaction reached the Red River country through unauthoritative sources, but the main result was to produce a feeling of uneasiness amongst the people there.

Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police R.G. MacBeth

In the Platform's definition of the power of the magistrates over the religious life of the community, there is evident the colonists 'conviction that, notwithstanding the vaunted independence of the churches, there ought to be some strong external authority to uphold them and their discipline; some power to fall back upon, greater than the censure of a single church or the combined strength and influence derived from advisory councils and unauthoritative synods.

The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut Maria Louise Greene