Authoritative in a sentence as an adjective

On Facebook, there is one authoritative list of who is in the group, and posts to the group stay in that group.

They will give you their DNS servers which you need to set as the DNS servers that are authoritative for your domain.

Then sign into your registrar and change the authoritative DNS servers for your domain.

It would then undo the local echo and use the "authoritative" reply instead.

Even today we use them in English-speaking countries for short pieces of text that need to look authoritative.

All authoritative nameservers have to be "open" to queries for the domains they serve.

"That's a good thing, given that all the people with credentials giving "authoritative answers" have been bullshiting us.

Likewise, there is no canonical, authoritative state of the store, since the server doesn't "think", only the clients do.

His entire concept of his job revolved around being the authoritative interface for retrieving and maintaining pieces of data that were no longer exclusively under his control.

>whom he described as lacking the credentials to authoritatively speak on issues pertaining to "privacy, surveillance, and online monitoring.

The only reason that it would take months to implement is because they're using some authoritative method - maybe ISP customer info, or government supplied info- to correlate users to reveal real identity.

One of the best parts about this whole Soylent debacle is getting to watch well-known people make complete fools of themselves by commenting on things that they clearly know absolutely nothing about, but still feel like they have the right to make authoritative statements on.

Somebody in the Bitcoin ecosystem would get a lot of attention if they published an authoritative number for the average Bitcoin price in 2013, which would likely suffice for most taxpayers' needs for a reasonable and consistent valuation.

"Let's say my hypothetical essay goes on to itemize point-by-point in a detailed and authoritative way how startup incubators and VCs virtually always end up screwing over founders and developers every time...well it couldn't because there are no such numbers, no similar data, because in general software startups don't operate that way.

There was a broad agreement\n on the extent and character of the consequences.\n\n ...\n\n The objective of the present annex is to provide an\n authoritative and definitive review of the health effects\n observed to date that are attributable to radiation exposure\n due to the accident and to clarify the potential risk projections,\n taking into account the levels, trends and patterns of\n radiation dose to the exposed populations.

Authoritative definitions

adjective

having authority or ascendancy or influence; "an important official"; "the captain's authoritative manner"

See also: important

adjective

of recognized authority or excellence; "the definitive work on Greece"; "classical methods of navigation"

See also: classical classic definitive

adjective

sanctioned by established authority; "an authoritative communique"; "the authorized biography"

See also: authorized authorised