person in authority

A Captain is a person in authority over a certain area, unit, or group of people.

I have never heard a person in authority say don't worry about the deadline!

Much better, kill all persons in authority, on both sides.

That way a person in authority can recognize the seriousness of the situation.

For example, some laws require a person in authority to wear the appropriate uniform.

Nepotism is when a person in authority gives jobs to their relatives.

And don't quibble; after all, you may well be the first person in authority that victims of the storm see.

But the crowd was bigger, and some of the men, though poorly dressed, seemed to be persons in authority.

"But we are also the person in authority and people don't respect authority like they used to.

"Surely these matters are controlled by persons in authority?"

To be protected, the information must be issued or approved by some person in authority.

These rights to silence exist only when the suspect is knowingly dealing with a person in authority.

I happened rightly to conjecture, that these were sent for orders to some person in authority upon this occasion.

It is false that only a person in authority is an authority.

"I get away from that person right away and head straight for the nearest person in authority."

Not that he felt any disaffection over this matter in relations to the persons in authority.

--for a price determined as reasonable by a person in authority.

Still, perhaps, it might be managed, he added, if a certain sum were forthcoming to bribe various janitors and persons in authority.

As always there is someone to hold a tight hand on the purse strings-usually the most affluent of the persons in authority."

Surely what counts, from the point of view of the person in authority, is not what the subject thinks but how he acts.

Authority was never given for the benefit of the person in authority, but only as a tool to serve those under that authority.

According to his auto he thought he was one of those people that persons in authority took a dislike to and persecuted him.

The court found that his confession was admissible because the complainant and her parents were not deemed to be 'persons in authority'.

Nor was this all, for in front of them ran the pabas and such of the women themselves as were persons in authority.

Chief (for a person in authority)