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authority

To have authority means to have the power to make a decision. This judge has the authority to throw you in jail. If you are an authority on something, many people think you know very, very much about it. The Pope is the highest authority in the Catholic church.

authority

(= authorization, authorisation, potency) the power or right to give orders or make decisions he has the authority to issue warrants deputies are given authorization to make arrests a place of potency in the state (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others the authorities have issued a curfew an expert whose views are taken as definitive he is an authority on corporate law (= assurance, confidence) freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities his assurance in his superiority did not make him popular after that failure he lost his confidence she spoke with authority official permission or approval authority for the program was renewed several times (= agency, bureau, office) an administrative unit of government the Central Intelligence Agency the Census Bureau Office of Management and Budget Tennessee Valley Authority an authoritative written work this book is the final authority on the life of Milton

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You are abusing your authority.
They have no moral authority.
The students revolted against authority.
The doctor is a great authority on children's diseases.
I don't have the authority to give you the green light.
He is a great authority on economics.
He abuses his authority.
He is an authority on China.
She is looked on as the leading authority on the subject.
It is not known who has the authority in this matter.
Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority.
The dignity of man is inviolable. To respect and protect it is the duty of all state authority.
I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority.
Teachers shouldn't fall back on their authority.
By what authority do you order me to do this?
Only after a century and a half of confusion was the royal authority restored.
That professor is an authority on Shakespeare.
I heard it on good authority.
He is an authority on physics.
What miraculous sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?
The section chief seems to like abusing his authority.
The governor invested him with full authority.
I realise that you are the second authority in Europe.

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Not even the most pretentious European court could match the Ming dynasty's authority.
It's a kind of codeword for unity, for undivided imperial authority.
Get photos of the brothers and Xiaoping Li to every port authority on the eastern seaboard.
Port Authority Galaz.
We advise you to apply to the authority concerned.
How do you maintain authority?
Authority on the Egyptian occult.
But a new license cannot be issued without the authority of the mayor and he has gone on a trip to the interior.
By what authority do you judge the destiny of Egypt?
I'll need a short statement I can forward to the proper authority.
Well, I did my best and I had the authority of the law.
I got it on the highest authority that they arrested one of that kidnapping gang.
Dr. Von HaIlor is the eminent Austrian psychiatrist. probably the greatest authority on the subject in the world. At present, he's in this country on a lecture tour. and has graciously volunteered his services.
Aye. An impudent, reckless rogue.. whogoesaroundthe shire stirring up the Saxons against authority.
I got it from the best authority.
We, soldiers in the service of the Holy Russian Empire. do hereby solemnly swear to acknowledge. and to defend with our lives, the authority of Catherine our empress. and to destroy her enemies!
Perhaps you are unaware that the articles of war invest in me the authority to order punishment.
I refuse and you have no authority.
There was a Hindu merchant. He'd just been to visit to the Suristanis and he has it on good authority that the Suristanis are preparing for an attack.
He is the eminent psychiatrist, a great authority on the subject.
But Indian affairs have been taken out of the hands of the army. and given to a civilian authority.
A civilian authority?
Why don't you? If I had the authority to do it, I'd like nothing better, but I haven't.
An impudent, reckless rogue who goes around the shire stirring up the Saxons against authority.
He's only a King. The commanding authority of the country's army is also nothing.
Get photos of the brothers and Xiaoping to every port authority on the Eastern seaboard.
It has no authority to arrest humans but it can investigate, so I think it'd be useful to you.
He is more difficult now, to those in authority, than even the records show.
An impudent, reckless rogue.. whogoesaroundthe shire stirring up the Saxons against authority.
By what authority do you, John Lackland, Prince of England.. claimtobe crownedthisday, sovereign of the realm.. andasdefenderoftheHolySepulcher, to receive the blessing of the church?
I'm an authority on animal cries.
Aren't you oversteppin' your authority, Marshal. - comin' in here and interfering in my business?
By whose authority?
Therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Universitatus Committeeatum E Pluribus Unum I hereby confer upon you. -.the honorary degree of Th.D.
As your father I must insist that you refrain from questioning my authority.

News and current affairs

In 2004, General Viktor Cherkesov, then Putin's representative in northwest Russia, published an essay that glorified the KGB as the only unspoiled authority in a corrupted country.
By means of a binding UN Security Council resolution, Kosovo could be granted full and exclusive authority over its citizens and territory, as well as limited capacity for action on the international scene.
There is a world of difference between an association of nation states bound together by treaty, and a single entity, whether you call it a state or not, with its own legal personality, deriving its authority from its own constitution.
But, rather than earning him the respect of an outraged Egyptian public, revelations in the opposition press that his plane had to obtain a safe passage and authority to land from the Israelis garnered only howls of derision.
Since then, it has continued to insist that its arguments for invading Iraq are beyond criticism, while making a mess of the postwar administration by refusing to share authority.
That would certainly satisfy Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian fringe seeking to weaken the Palestinian Authority.
That is why the UK's Financial Services Authority, and even the Confederation of British Industry, which speaks largely for non-financial firms concerned about access to credit, has begun to call for a truce between the authorities and financial markets.
It would be odd to uphold the Council's authority by means that failed to get its approval.
The path to a satisfactory resolution is clear: give the General Assembly a greater role in the selection of the Secretary General so that members would be delegating powers to an authority of their own choosing.
The editor-in-chief and deputy editor-in-chief were sacked, but the open questioning of the legitimacy of the government's authority to regulate journalism is bound to have a profound impact.
The two men met, seemingly as equals, not to express the common values of conservatism, but to confirm and promote their authority to uphold traditional values.
Within the framework of these rules, individual countries would retain the authority to design their policies.
Those who advocate leaving globalization exclusively in the hands of the private sector may resent the idea of vesting tax-raising authority in a global agency.
Arafat presided over a sort of anarchy, encouraging rivalries, undermining other potential leaders, and ensuring that all authority (and money) ran through his hands.
The recently created European Banking Authority has only limited powers over national supervisors, whose daily work is guided mainly by national considerations.
Europe, of course, has no significant centralized tax authority, so this key automatic stabilizer is essentially absent.
As Burma's authorities test reform, these gifts, together with her negotiating skills and, most of all, her vast moral authority, will be tested as never before.
In a certain sense, Arafat is the Palestinian Authority (PA).
Eliminating it will not only help farmers and the West as it tries to curtail heroin use, but also Afghanistan's infant government as it struggles to assert its national authority against the warlords.
But only profound reforms of traditional authority can pave the way towards freedom and growth.
To state the problem more generally, the eurozone requires a liquidity backstop for its fiscal authority.
With little authority to initiate legislation, the Parliament, too, will have no choice but to pivot toward oversight.
Nonetheless, Khamenei's invocation of the law echoes the demands of many conservative-pragmatists who lean toward Mousavi, who is not in a position to challenge Khamenei's authority directly.
The International Civil Aviation Authority has announced that it will convene a group of experts to help it provide guidance for the industry to decide what level of ash in the atmosphere makes it unsafe to fly.
Hereditary monarchy, often backed by divine authority, has worked in the past.

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