If nothing more, the essay is a testament to a man with the moral conviction and intellectual authority to question the order of things.

Mr. Holbrooke brings intellectual and bureaucratic authority to his new job.

Another form of power is seen through the intellectual authority over the Orient within Western culture.

Mr. Heard's wobbly stance as a cultural anthropologist further undermines his intellectual authority.

There was a struggle for intellectual authority between theology (the study of religion and the Bible) and philosophy (which included science and mathematics).

The process also throws faculty members into a new relationship with their students - that of coach rather than intellectual authority.

To oppose it they must invoke alternative standards of intellectual authority and legitimacy.

Le Corbusier became the (utterly untested, of course) source of intellectual authority for this particular kind of social segregation.

And she must engage an audience, one perhaps a bit fearful of the subject matter, with the intellectual authority she brings to bear on her personal calamity.

However, the clergy was beginning to lose its overwhelming intellectual authority.