This example is from Han Fook Kwang, editor of the Straits Times:
No higher authority in the Christian community than Anglican Archbishop John Chew of the [NCCS] issued a statement .... (31 May 2009).
What he meant was the statement came from someone very high up — but what he wrote actually conveyed the exact opposite.
The expression he needed was no less/lower an authority than ....
We can see this a lot more clearly if we move the parts of the sentence about: The Anglican Archbishop John Chew, no less, issued a statement ....
What this means is that the person who issued a statement was very high up: he was the Archbishop, nothing less/lower than that.
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