formal authority

collocation in English

meaningsofformalandauthority

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formal
adjective
uk
/ˈfɔː.məl/us
/ˈfɔːr.məl/
public ...
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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 offormalandauthorityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofformal authority

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This happens due to the fact that committees lack anyformalauthorityto enforce their recommendations.
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One could come and go between communities as pleased without fear offormalauthoritylooming.
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Then, the party which does not haveformalauthoritytransmits part of the information he has acquired to the other party.
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These conferences have noformalauthorityto make decisions relating to this regime.
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The principal will delegateformalauthorityto the agent when the latter has better access to information and when their objectives are not too different.
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How did he accumulate and use political resources beyond his limitedformalauthority?
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Since the council was merely acting as an advisory body without anyformalauthority, the union demanded the establishment of a negotiating committee in 1964.
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While it could be said that women turned to religiously-based political activity because they were excluded from formal political participation, so were they withoutformalauthorityin churches.
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Cyprian attacked the claim of the confessing martyr to give absolution independent of the moreformalauthorityof a bishop on the grounds that this practice was radically new.
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Although its constitution did not feature "home rule" provisions, the state's eighty-two counties retained significantformalauthorityand informal power relative to state-level actors and institutions.
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In the first place, we read thatformalauthorityis required for the two preproduction models in the larger version.
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This is done withoutformalauthoritywhere the medical superintendent is satisfied about the capacity of the individual patient to instruct or consent to the disbursement.
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An illegal entry can be made only where there is no power to enter or where, in defiance of a farmer's objections, entry is made withoutformalauthoritybeing produced.
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He had noformalauthorityto do so but his influence and good sense made a success of the scheme.
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Subsequently, however, he would be typecast into portrayals offormalauthorityfigures, such as judges and doctors.
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Typically, a brevetted officer would be given the insignia of the brevetted rank, but not the pay orformalauthority.
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It is not dependent on title orformalauthority.
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Any individual, with or withoutformalauthoritycan exercise leadership by observing, interpreting and intervening within a group or organization.
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Theformalauthorityfor field hearings is found implicitly in the chamber rules.
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