legal authority
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflegalandauthority
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legal
adjective
uk/ˈliː.ɡəl/us/ˈliː.ɡəl/
connected with ...
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authority
noun
uk/ɔːˈθɒr.ə.ti/us/əˈθɔːr.ə.t̬i/
the moral or legal right or ability ...
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(Definition oflegalandauthorityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoflegal authority
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He appropriates her strategy of naming herself through aliases and exploits his patriarchallegalauthorityto eliminate her subjectivity and her freedom.
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The practical success oflegalauthoritymay not depend on the use of exclusionar y directives.
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Ironically, natural-law accounts oflegalauthorityfail for much of the same reason that the earlier legal-positivist approach did.
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The existence of these vertically interlocking intentions is a social fact, but it also issues in reasons to conform tolegalauthority.
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Political authority, includinglegalauthority, is in fact exercised on many other bases, including self-interest, charisma, superstition, and so on.
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Clear rights andlegalauthorityto manage local resources are increasingly the accepted correlates of successful community irrigation management.
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Persons havelegalauthorityin a particular system just in case it is morally appropriate that they have such legal power.
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This is no doubt a possible response to the predicament oflegalauthoritydiscussed earlier-but it is not a satisfying response.
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When examining specific policy areas, identifying the source of political authority often supplants the identification oflegalauthority.
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I am preparing another paper on thelegalauthorityof the petition in 1628 and 1629.
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And within this, the judiciary was critical precisely in bestowing considerablelegalauthorityon the political system.
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One of the crucial problems pertaining to international lending is the lack of a supranationallegalauthoritythat can enforce private contracts across borders.
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And the coordination account is refreshingly realistic in declining to invoke the sorts of fictions often deployed to explainlegalauthority.
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This created a distance betweenlegalauthorityand the surrounding social context.
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So my criticisms are consistent with leading positivist accounts of the law, and my conclusions therefore apply to positivist accounts of law andlegalauthority.
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These are empirical claims about the source of theirlegalauthority.
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In the case of such rules, there is no legal practice, no "possibility" oflegalauthority.
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And concerning that basic case we have available a broadly positivist explanation of the reasons legal officials have to comply withlegalauthority. 18.
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Citizens at odds with these policies viewed them as politically punitive and doubted the government'slegalauthorityto implement them.
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