"authority" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

authority sustantivo

sustantivo + authority

Kolokacji: 189

Port Authority • Transit Authority • Housing Authority • immigration authority • occupation authority • Exposition Authority • ...

authority + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 17

authority figure • authority official • Port Authority Bus Terminal • authority area • Port Authority official • ...

authority + verbo

Kolokacji: 342

authority arrests • authority investigates • authority issues • authority refuses • authority announces • authority seeks • authority says • ...

verbo + authority

Kolokacji: 158

grant authority • give authority • hold authority • challenge one's authority • use one's authority • undermine one's authority • ...

Kolokacji: 51

Grup znaczeniowych: 22

Kolokacji: 9

Kolokacji: 9

(3) hold, use, defy, exert, share, ...

Kolokacji: 10

(4) challenge, question, call, request

Kolokacji: 4

(5) undermine, weaken, obey

Kolokacji: 3

1. undermine one's authority = podważać czyjś władza undermine one's authority

It could undermine his authority, and that would never be allowed to happen.
Paris didn't want undermine the security chief's authority, but he had to say it.
The teacher ran to the principal and said I had undermined her authority.
"Did you ever hear of a thing called conspiracy to undermine authority?"
Such an election could undermine, rather than legitimate, his authority.
That kind of writing always risks undermining an author's authority.
If she ignored him, it would undermine his authority with the crew.
Sergeant Williams had undermined his authority, he said - again.
Good, she wasn't going to undermine my authority by contradicting me.
He is told of an unusual situation that could undermine his authority in the locker room.