wield authority

But he spoke and walked in the way of a man used to wielding authority.

However, a person who merely wields authority is not by right an expert.

And his office, which dictated he wield authority, no matter who suffered.

They were certainly not accustomed to seeing a Klingon wielding authority.

Chapter Eight considers ways of dealing with people who wield authority in this way.

She looked maybe twenty-five, too young to wield authority.

Independence was proclaimed in 1941, but the French continued to wield authority until 1943, when elections were held.

Parents of working teen-agers may no longer wield authority based on financial power.

But more characteristic was the visible manipulation of supernatural power by men and women who wielded authority.

No wonder skeptics asked whether any drug czar could wield authority over the big departments.

The only voice in the room that could have tried to wield authority in that moment.

This was no central Chinese Government decision; it was a local official wielding authority.

A common problem for adults both at home and at work is how to wield authority and/or respond to it.

Grumpy old people tottered about, yet wielded authority.

Plans call for a new Supreme Court to foster unity by wielding authority over existing regional high courts.

Though he is president, Mr. Ando has a difficult task in wielding authority.

Whoever this Korolis was, he clearly wielded authority.

Although the emperor did not wield authority in matters of faith, the government effectively controlled organization, finances and policies of the church.

The new Government, moreover, has yet to survive a parliamentary confidence vote, expected tomorrow night, that will be the first test of its ability to wield authority.

They seem natural, lifelike, less about Mr. Avedon wielding authority over his subjects.

As he'd learned during his thirty-year tenure as a Hamburg police officer, one couldn't wield authority without looking authoritative.

He loved freshly squeezed orange juice almost as much as he loved wielding authority.

She made fun of older men, subtly ridiculing the ways they wielded authority over women as well as the declining of their sexual powers.

Earlier leaders, being experts who wielded authority, would have been in a position actually to instruct the group, as respected senior leaders will sometimes do even today.

He was using his soft, reasonable tone now, his professional lecturer tone he'd always switched to when he wanted to wield authority.