authoritative source

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authoritative
adjective
uk
/ɔːˈθɒr.ɪ.tə.tɪv/us
/əˈθɔːr.ə.t̬ə.t̬ɪv/
showing that you are confident, in control, and expect to be respected ...
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source
noun[C]
uk
/sɔːs/us
/sɔːrs/
the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause ...
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(Definition ofauthoritativeandsourcefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Unlike legal rules, legal principles lack a canonical form and hence cannot be explained in terms of anauthoritativesource.
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I will be regularly consulting it for the rest of my career as anauthoritativesource.
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You are then given (true) evidence that yourauthoritativesourcemight be a fake.
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They sought clear direction from anauthoritativesourceso that they could progress with the task of implementation.
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Using another's words allows the speaker to cite anauthoritativesourceor to respond to what another has said, to evaluate it, and often to challenge it.
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If children maintained some representation of the word-referent link, they might show savings in learning the link when they hear it from a moreauthoritativesource.
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Hare's point of departure is development of what he calls the ' three-part structure of morality ' : the moral demand, our defective natural capacities, and anauthoritativesourceof this demand.
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I hope that something may be said from a far moreauthoritativesourcethan myself on this question.
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We could hardly credit it if it had not come from anauthoritativesource.
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I raised the matter because the view was strongly put to me by a veryauthoritativesourcethat the objects did conflict.
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They cannot deny that it is anauthoritativesourcefor a different view.
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Was there any proof that the excommunication proceeded from anauthoritativesource?
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A figure of 28,000 conditional fee agreements to date has been advanced, though one has yet to see anyauthoritativesourcefor that.
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There is no moreauthoritativesourcethan that.
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Is that not an extraordinary indictment from that veryauthoritativesource?
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Indeed, oneauthoritativesourceclaims that no fewer than 72 language pairs must be equipped with matching restricted codes.
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I have it from anauthoritativesourcethat the small savers have accumulated the astounding amount of nearly £6,000,000,000.
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He has produced nothing at all, no agreement from anyauthoritativesourceto suggest that that is true.
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In my opinion, it would be hard to find a better informed or moreauthoritativesourcethan this debate which we are concluding.
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They should tell us in simple terms from anauthoritativesource.
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