Collocations withauthority

These are words often used in combination withauthority.

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absolute authority
The strict style lost its aura of absolute authority and was written into a linear model of history.
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apparent authority
But in fact we commonly distinguish between real and perceived or apparent authority and between de jure and merely de facto authority.
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appropriate authority
They illustrate the close relationship of religion and nascent whiggism because of their account of appropriate authority, and the illegitimacy of allowing freedom of worship but retaining civil disabilities.
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central authority
First, he was seeking to reinforce central authority.
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centralized authority
Historically, economic security and economic advancement could be achieved mainly through or with the support of some centralized authority.
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civil authority
They did nothing to establish civil authority structures or to encourage civil society organisations.
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civilian authority
The weakness of the justice system is impeding the transition to a new democratic state in which civilian authority prevails.
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colonial authority
The implementation of colonial authority was far from easy and dependent on many more factors than brute force, legislation or subjects alone.
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communist authorities
The suppression of the public sphere by the communist authorities had profound implications as regards notions of individual and group identity, private and public memory, and attitudes towards authority.
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competent authority
Questions still evolve around deciding who will be the competent authority for education.
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conservation authority
Does he agree that a separately instituted conservation authority would be a much better public safeguard in this respect?
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considerable authority
Why do administrators enjoy considerable authority in some policies while they are constrained in others?
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constituted authority
In addition, the brutalisation and militarisation of childhood has led to disrespect for constituted authority and elders, and even the sanctity of human life.
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constitutional authority
However, the opinion goes well beyond acknowledging specific statutory and constitutional authority for the municipal ordinance.
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controlling authority
Would it not be better that he should have that judicial and controlling authority in his hands?
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convening authority
What convening authority has power to place me upon a court-martial?
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decision-making authority
Women from non-participating households had lower decision-making authority in the choice of variety and in selling seeds for the next season.
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delegated authority
It relies typically on legislation, delegated authority and specific fiscal incentives.
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delegation of authority
Delegation of authority to organisations outside the government bureaucracy will only be done when there is enough assurance that it will not create problems.
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devolution of authority
Decentralization of responsibilities in health care should be accompanied by a corresponding devolution of authority and adequate human, institutional, and financial resources.
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disciplinary authority
Why the reassertions of professional and disciplinary authority over autonomous and reasoned dissent?
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discretionary authority
The main finding is that a combination of democratic contestation and institutional restraints on governments' discretionary authority substantially improves developmental governance.
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divine authority
However, as long as they dealt with give-and-take matters, there was no need to appeal to divine authority for them to function.
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ecclesiastical authority
In effect, the national centre of ecclesiastical authority and prestige had been reduced to a billboard for a secular celebration.
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enforcement authority
On a global level, this is most likely to require a global decisionmaking body with enforcement authority.
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established authority
Patmore and others (2002) does not step outside of established authority.
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express authority
The interview to which reference is made in the latter part of the question was given on my behalf and with my express authority.
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external authority
The discipline's requirement is that one find external authority for what one hears.
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federal authority
The debates reflected the larger national divisions over the power of the executive and the meaning of federal authority.
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foremost authority
Baxter is a foremost authority on the subject.
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formal authority
This happens due to the fact that committees lack any formal authority to enforce their recommendations.
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governing authority
Again, the constitution of the governing authority under a scheme would be determined by negotiations inside the industry.
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governmental authority
So where is the dividing line in this case between governmental authority and religious fanaticism?
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housing authority
It is a housing authority for all these purposes.
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immigration authorities
We also carry out a search of our own records and check with immigration authorities, police, hospitals and morgues.
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imperial authority
On the one hand, the heir performed in his father's scenario and regarded his father as the embodiment of imperial authority.
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independent authority
As such, they delegate policy-setting powers to their own party leaders and give the executive less potential to wield independent authority over policy.
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institutional authority
Unfortunately, such conceptual slippage between idle fantasies and stable representations of institutional authority is the problematic kernel of these authors' entire argument.
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judicial authority
More important, perhaps, he demonstrates the limited ability of any judicial authority to restrain military actions in a war-like situation.
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lawful authority
Whether two or six prisoners are assembled, whether they "use or threaten violence for the common purpose of overthrowing lawful authority in that prison".
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leading authority
He is a leading authority on ethical issues associated with ageing.
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legal authority
He appropriates her strategy of naming herself through aliases and exploits his patriarchal legal authority to eliminate her subjectivity and her freedom.
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legislative authority
However, since expertise is not commonly the basis of legislative authority, an argument from expertise cannot be used to defend the general claim of intentionalism.
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legitimate authority
But perhaps the crucial question is whether an authorless customary norm could ever enjoy legitimate authority.
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male authority
Their arguments were startling in their radical challenge to male authority.
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metropolitan authority
Almost all of these were in one metropolitan authority which was unable to supply information on problem behaviour.
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monetary authority
In this case, the gold certificates would be fully backed with gold by the monetary authority.
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moral authority
They had already gained moral authority among large sections of the city's population.
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municipal authority
The municipal authority frowns at this practice even though no alternative sludge treatment is available.
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occupation authority
There were national parties, groups dominated by the royal palace, others formed by the occupation authority as well as ideological parties expressing certain ideologies.
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papal authority
The real issue here is not modernism itself but outrage against the counter-cultural papal authority which condemned it.
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parental authority
Parental authority was as strong in the city as in the country.
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patriarchal authority
For widows, the patriarchal authority held by their husbands seemed, ironically, to become even more pronounced after their husband's deaths.
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political authority
They interpret the burial/offering complexes as an expression of political authority in ritual and mythical terms.
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position of authority
How and why this class came to a position of authority sufficient to dominate politics is never explained.
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postal authority
Whatever postal authority is in place in the future, it should ensure that it looks after the nation as a whole.
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proper authority
That is a question of law which should be directed to the proper authority.
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provincial authority
They provided the sovereign with both a source of income - they were expensive commodities - and a degree of provincial authority.
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provisional authority
Those tasks will include providing the coalition provisional authority with additional protection and improving our information-gathering capability in the divisional area of operations.
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recognized authority
He is a recognized authority on interaction of lasers with condensed matter.
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regional authority
Clearly, an institution with recognized regional authority is needed.
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regulatory authority
Fares have been determined by the regulatory authority based on basic operating costs with little attention to the quality and type of service provided.
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religious authority
Today, more and more, religious authority does not come exclusively from religious training.
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respected authority
Let me give a well-known expression of this premise from a widely respected authority.
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royal authority
A symbol of royal authority, it was used at coronations and in battles.
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secular authority
If that voice could have found unity, it could then have directed public action with an unchallenged secular authority.
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sewerage authority
All we suggest is that an extra copy should be turned out and sent to the sewerage authority concerned.
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sole authority
The composer is both vital and yet not the sole authority on 'the work'.
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sovereign authority
I disagree with him on whether these limitations were imposed only externally (by sovereign authority).
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spiritual authority
Writing with great flair, she depicts him in the round, with all his defects as well as his immense spiritual authority.
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statutory authority
He was trying to get legislators to reallocate some statutory authority from medical experts to expert eugenicists.
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supervisory authority
The supervisory authority is charged to protect mainly the interests of present and forthcoming policyholders.
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supreme authority
He was the supreme authority, appointed directly by the crown.
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taxing authority
Note that the provinces did not completely surrender taxing authority, only for taxes that overlapped with federal taxes.
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temporal authority
He finished by denouncing all temporal authority as ephemeral and suspect in the best of circumstances.
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territorial authority
In the midnineteenth century, these clan groups developed some regional territorial authority that extended beyond their control over clan members.
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transfer of authority
All that remained now was a formal ceremony of capitulation and a transfer of authority.
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transit authority
The transit authority takes the money and uses it.
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transportation authority
There is one other point that must be mentioned, and that is that the county council is also the transportation authority for the county.
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ultimate authority
The first involved questions of authority, such as who exercised ultimate authority and whether any limits could be placed on this power.
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