Sentences with phrase «makes authoritative statements»
That way I get to make authoritative statements, do authoritative actions, go in authoritative directions and everyone else gets to ignore me and go their own way, with me or without me.
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He still carries the habits of a scientist, pausing in the middle of sentences to reconsider or rephrase what he was about to say, and shying away from making authoritative statements about anything he hasn't examined personally.
Yet as she's making this authoritative statement, she also reveals her delicate, awkward position in the world.
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For us to sit here and make such authoritative statements on what happens after we die... well that would put us on the same level as being God, no?
The pope, evidently, was willing for a time to tolerate dissent on an issue on which he had made a solemn, authoritative statement, hoping that the day would come when, in a calmer cultural and ecclesiastical atmosphere, the truth of that teaching could be appreciated.
Meanwhile, Steve McIntyre DID predict a reduction in trend by half, or at least made several very confident and authoritative statements about what would happen, which Roger interpreted similarly.
It also creates statements that are authoritative — because a judge made them — but are not legal authority.