1.   It was the latest instance of an attempt to lend religious authority to political violence.

2.   Her southern accent lent authority to her performance.

3.   Although Alexander lent his authority to domestic reforms, it is unwise to think of him as a daring pilot in extremity.

4.   Axworthy believes that Canada and other small nations can lend moral authority to help solve such problems.

5.   Demographic data lend authority to what Diaz and Ms. Baxandall describe.

6.   He argues that footnotes lend moral authority to scholarship and may be dispensed with only at the peril of the profession.

7.   He lent presidential authority to the arms control mindset that measured peace and progress by the number of times the United States and Soviet Union could destroy each other.

8.   He is the highest-ranking wartime leader brought before the tribunal, and his trial will lend added authority to the court.

9.   He lends authority to police officers on the streets of New York and to U.N. peacekeepers in the hills of Macedonia.

10.   She recounts sobering and, at times chilling, events in a matter-of-fact tone that lends remarkable authority to her tale.