central authority
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcentralandauthority
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central
adjective
uk/ˈsen.trəl/us/ˈsen.trəl/
in, at, from, or near the centre or most important part ...
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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 ofcentralandauthorityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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First, he was seeking to reinforcecentralauthority.
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It evoked the most powerful agrarian symbols such as maize and rain deities to representcentralauthoritythrough ritual reenactments.
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Their interests do not coincide perfectly with thecentralauthoritythat distributed timber concessions.
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The proposed mor tuary-bundle temples were integrated into elite habitational spaces, suggesting that each lineage, rather than acentralauthority, regulated access to its bundle.
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These papers show that regulation by a formalcentralauthorityis problematic.
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A language of the powerful has a connecting function between peoples at the peripheries at the same time as it exerts itscentralauthority.
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It is a context in which norms must be established by the interpretive community, not from the natural world, nor from an externalcentralauthority.
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When the monarchy was no longer in existence and thiscentralauthorityhad vanished, the law ceased to be relevant and so fell into disuse.
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And once again,centralauthoritywas able to control this trade to a certain extent, but that extent was always limited.
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In welfare state expansion, by contrast,centralauthoritytends to regulate how to spend and how much to spend on specific items.
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Already in his pieces on passive resistance, he had identified the need for acentralauthorityto guide the movement.
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During long stretches of time, the country lost itscentralauthorityor was fully governed by stronger neighbors.
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Local authorities inevitably retained some degree of discretion in their relations tocentralauthority.
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These values in turn informed civic perceptions ofcentralauthority.
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Under this political arrangement, thecentralauthoritycan avoid blame when local authorities use repression.
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