The small print tells them I've got no real authority.

And the men that arrested us had no real authority.

And I am the only real authority on this plague.

He had no real authority, but he'd spent enough time in the Arena to know that sometimes confidence is everything.

He paused for me to appreciate where the real authority lay.

As things were, Congress had no real legal authority.

There was a time when a strong statement from Washington in support of human rights and democratic behavior carried real authority.

No one suggests that the office will carry any real authority.

Maybe they didn't; this was the first time he had spoken with real authority in years.

It gave the concept of one's personal space some real authority.