supreme authority

collocation in English

meaningsofsupremeandauthority

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supreme
adjective
uk
/suːˈpriːm/us
/suːˈpriːm/
having the highest rank, level, ...
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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 ofsupremeandauthorityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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He was thesupremeauthority, appointed directly by the crown.
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The economists attending the discussion argued that withoutsupremeauthority, justice and security could not be sanctioned.
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Specific individuals ofsupremeauthorityhave not been identified in monuments, royal burials, or iconographic representations.
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Before their ruthless will, frondeur princes, rebellious nobles, parlements and provincial estates inclined and finally accepted thesupremeauthorityof state and king.
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He was commissioned by the king to preach a controversial sermon which asserted thesupremeauthorityof the king and the bishops.
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This was the crown's inability to manage, on its own terms, the one area over which it had successfully maintained itssupremeauthoritysince 1660 - finance.
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These developments reinforced the increasing power of literate musical culture and enshrined thesupremeauthorityof the printed score and, by extension, the absolute control of the composer.
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Parker had demanded subordination of religion to thesupremeauthority.
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First, to assert the necessity for having onesupremeauthorityresponsible for the whole catchment area of a river.
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I regarded myself as having been rebuked by asupremeauthority, but we have not yet heard any more of that libel action.
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Which is going to be thesupremeauthorityin this field?
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A supreme court is supreme because it sits in adjudication of any dispute's conformity to thesupremeauthorityof a written constitution.
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It will havesupremeauthorityto interfere in those matters.
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What is needed obviously is onesupremeauthority.
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Once thatsupremeauthorityhas decided, no one else has any authority unless the law is altered.
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For example, the first criterion is that the use of armed force must always be declared by thesupremeauthority.
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You must do it by bringing about coordination between all the districts under onesupremeauthority.
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I do not see that at all, because the county council settles the rates of pay and is thesupremeauthorityover the whole area.
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He is in a position of practicallysupremeauthority, and he is able to rule his community with an extraordinarily autocratic rule.
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