How To Use Say-so In A Sentence
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You can't leave the hospital without the say-so of the doctor.
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I don't think people in other departments want to give up the final say-so when it comes to files that they created or may want to refer to sometime in the future.
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But how a man like that can get on my unit, without my say-so...?
A MEANS TO EVIL
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Neither can we transfer money from our accounts to the Philippines without the say-so of the bank.
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His intention was to get you lot to try, convict and hang me just on his say-so.
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Abuse is easy because no proof is needed – an alleged blasphemer can be locked up, and even executed, on the say-so of witnesses.
A divided Pakistan buries Salmaan Taseer and a liberal dream
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I don't expect them to bounce a doctor on his ear just on my say-so, as much as I sometimes wish it were that easy.
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Credit card companies, banks, the phone company, your landlord, your employer, and even the cable guy have likely all had a peep inside your credit file, though none of them could have done it without your say-so.
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Two years later he tried to move to Switzerland but Swiss police quickly expelled him on the say-so, he believed, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
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You can't leave the hospital without the say-so of the doctor.
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Despite what you might hear, this paper doesn't write stories on the say-so of just any ten year old, but as we'd run out of other inspiration, we thought we'd check this one out.
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Start making scenes in his shop and he'll stall you for months with references to far-away bureaucrats without whose say-so nothing can move.
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There can be few other industries in the land whose billions are so dependent on the say-so of such an esoteric and anonymous few.
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In fact, District residents are the only group of American citizens who pay federal taxes and contribute national guard troops to Afghanistan who are denied any say-so in how our government operates.
Kelly Moore: You Want a Publicist? Pay For Him Yourself, Senator
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This is a field where, largely on a consultant paediatrician's say-so, families can be split asunder or parents can be convicted of very serious crimes against their children.
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You'll need to have experience in the industry to apply for either scholarship, but you'll need a producer's say-so to apply for the on-the-job training.
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He'd started investing small amounts on Steere's say-so when the trial started.
ROUGH JUSTICE
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The UK government is planning the introduction of indefinite detention on a psychiatrist's say-so.
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You can't leave the hospital without the say-so of the doctor.
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On the say-so of economists, Congress has spent upwards of $1 trillion to "stimulate" an economy that remains unstimulated.
Follow the Money
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The students had a showdown with police when the university tried to approve the deal without their say-so; 66 students were arrested and are to appear in court next month.
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`It's no use debating the issue over the telephone, C. W. We can't make a move without the Secretary-General's say-so.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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No evidence of ‘conspiracy’ is necessary other than a stoolie's say-so - not cash, not corroborative testimony, not even the drugs themselves.
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Virginia cares a great deal about matching the visual and textual elements - she has let me have a say-so in the selection of all artists and art for our books.
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Start making scenes in his shop and he'll stall you for months with references to far-away bureaucrats without whose say-so nothing can move.
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This encroaching formulism ultimately dooms the film, which stumbles into its final act as an if-you-say-so romantic comedy.
GreenCine Daily
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You always want to have the say-so about everything in our marriage.
PROSPECT HILL
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Umpires' calls are what philosophers of language call "performative utterances"—their say-so is what makes it so.
Arbitrary Power in America's Pastime
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What we need is for established writers, one's who have enough say-so, to start writing YA fiction about other races.
JESUS GOD IN HEAVEN KNOCK IT OFF ALREADY
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Private individuals have the right to film their own property, and these tapes cannot be passed on without the say-so of the courts.
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If a player is to be rested it must be for the good of the team not on the say-so of the national coach.
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They have the authority (and the numbers) to bring the issue to the floor without Quinn's say-so.
Tim Judson: Boat Is Sinking for Opponents of Paid Sick Days -- Quinn Should Bail Out Now
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Don't just accept his say-so: find out for yourself.
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He was in charge of the Bolshoi, this man, and no ballerina could get a job without his say-so.
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She makes sure that she has say-so with the storylines as well.
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All of this, of course, is contingent upon your say-so.
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Said his attorney Brian Oxman, "I think it's an important issue for all fathers around the country and around the world that when their child dies they should have a say-so in their child's estate.
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By his own say-so an insignificant umpire could dismiss a world class player by the lift of his finger rather as if a stage carpenter could have told Sir John Gielgud to hop it.
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You think the jury will find him guilty, just on your say-so .
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It had dented my pride, and my lawyer was fighting in my name partly on principle and mostly because I didnt want Hansen and those above him to think that I would just roll over and die on their say-so, but in a sense I was almost satisfied that I couldnt practice as a PI.
The Lovers
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On the say-so of economists, Congress has spent upwards of $1 trillion to "stimulate" an economy that remains unstimulated.
Follow the Money
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This process is similar to constructing a proof in geometry: the author knows the conclusion before writing the proof, but in the proof, the conclusion follows from the logic and not just the say-so of the author.
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He is teaching a child that they have as much or more say-so as their parent, that their parent is on an equal level with them and can be challenged and bargained with to achieve what they desire.
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You should need some extreme persuasion - far more than the directors say-so in the accounts - to decide that a company bleeding cash might be turning a profit.
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There is no indication that they received, or even sought, such information other than the utterly unconvincing say-so of Mr Davis.
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What did surprise me was the number of letters from readers who were put off by my willingness to give my husband broad say-so in terms of my discretionary spending.
Readers Weigh In—and Have Lots to Say
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On the other side, hotels where the staff were disempowered, and couldn't bring me a newspaper without their boss' say-so were dreadful.
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Despite the fevered prattle of conspiracy theorists, the say-so of a few doesn't take America to war and certainly doesn't keep it there.
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We're thinking of people like fund managers Bill Miller and Eddie Lampert, who were holders of Fannie and Freddie stock, as they later made known, partly on Mr. Paulson's say-so.
Making the Next Bailout the Last
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The P's take us from pandowdy to pompey to pudjicky; the Q's offer qualmish, quick start, and quiddle; in R we find ramstugious, redd up, robin snow, and rumpelkammer; and S yields saluggi, say-so, and smearcase.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XXIII No 4
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Rent arrears are overlooked and no one can be thrown out on the say-so of a manager - the site no longer has a manager; it has a social worker.
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Lateness, laziness, or insubordination were punished by the deduction of so many marks from their weekly earnings, and all on the say-so of the "stagger" in charge of the squad.
World's War Events, Vol. II
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We don't have the final say-so – therefore we do not judge.
Obama: MJ's talent mixed with tragedy
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He and his family used their control of the unions to take over the trucking companies that serviced the garment district, so that few manufacturers could get a delivery or make a shipment without their say-so.
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He was accused of organising the press conference without the say-so of others in an effort to further ingratiate himself with the media.
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Yet this commitment does not require us to stop everything and neglect our own defense merely on the say-so of a single foreign government.
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Those were the British orders, and the Japanese had no reason to countermand them on her say-so.
A Covert Affair
