It would also leave intact the states' traditional authority in the realm of contract law.

if it is somber, it is also precise, and the precision lends authority to the vision.

But it must also be noted that he used several indirect means to obtain and support his authority with the people.

This authority may also extend to deciding the type and quantity of ammunition to be used.

Body art also enhanced their beauty, social status, and spiritual authority.

Cardinals also serve as advisors to the pope and hold positions of authority within the structure of the Catholic Church.

The word may be a compound containing the Old English adjective brytten ( from the verb breotan meaning ' to break ' or ' to disperse '), an element also found in the terms bryten rice (' kingdom '), bryten-grund (' the wide expanse of the earth ') and bryten cyning (' king whose authority was widely extended ').

She was also an authority on the traditional Lakeland crafts, period furniture and stonework.

According to its Memorandum & Articles of Association, its objectives are :- “ To act as Nominee or agent or attorney either solely or jointly with others, for any person or persons, partnership, company, corporation, government, state, organisation, sovereign, province, authority, or public body, or any group or association of them ....” Bank of England Nominees Limited was granted an exemption by Edmund Dell, Secretary of State for Trade, from the disclosure requirements under Section 27 ( 9 ) of the Companies Act 1976, because, “ it was considered undesirable that the disclosure requirements should apply to certain categories of shareholders .” The Bank of England is also protected by its Royal Charter status, and the Official Secrets Act.

People acquired power through persuasion, exerted both publicly and privately, public debate, force of will ( often via aggressive flames ), garnering authority and respect by spending much time and effort contributing to the community ( by being a maintainer of a FAQ, for example ; see also Kibo, etc.

Continuing Arab disquiet over Allied intentions also led during 1918 to the British Declaration to the Seven and the Anglo-French Declaration, the latter promising " the complete and final liberation of the peoples who have for so long been oppressed by the Turks, and the setting up of national governments and administrations deriving their authority from the free exercise of the initiative and choice of the indigenous populations.

However, in instances an individual director may still bind the company by his acts by virtue of his ostensible authority ( see also: the rule in Turquand's Case ).

See, e. g., Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States, ( giving federal courts the authority to fashion common law rules with respect to issues of federal power, in this case negotiable instruments backed by the federal government ); see also International News Service v. Associated Press, 248 U. S. 215 ( 1918 ) ( creating a cause of action for misappropriation of " hot news " that lacks any statutory grounding, but that is one of the handful of federal common law actions that survives today ); National Basketball Association v. Motorola, Inc., 105 F. 3d 841, 843-44, 853 ( 2d Cir.

These include eliminating the positions of appointed senators and senators for life, granting the President authority to remove the commanders-in-chief of the armed forces, and reducing the presidential term from six to four years while also disabling immediate re-election.

But it is also distinct from presbyterian polity, in which higher assemblies of congregational representatives can exercise considerable authority over individual congregations.

The council also issued 27 disciplinary canons governing church administration and authority.

Accordingly, “ moved by the same purposes ” the fathers “ apportioned equal prerogatives to the most holy see of new Rome ” because “ the city which is honored by the imperial power and senate and enjoying privileges equaling older imperial Rome should also be elevated to her level in ecclesiastical affairs and take second place after her .” The framework for allocating ecclesiastical authority advocated by the council fathers mirrored the allocation of imperial authority in the later period of the Roman Empire.

Therefore, while God's authority was absolute, God was also authoritative over the laws of nature which were God's " other book.

It is unlikely that Constantine's personal authority extended so far north, and while the attacks may have been directed at his allies, they may also have been simple looting expeditions.

Call centres have also been the subject of complaints by callers who find the staff often do not have enough skill or authority to resolve problems, while the staff sometimes appear apathetic.

All contemporary Jewish movements consider the Tanakh, and the Oral Torah in the form of the Mishnah and Talmuds as sacred, although movements are divided as to claims concerning their divine revelation, and also their authority.

The President is also Commander in Chief of the United States Armed Forces, and as such has broad authority over the armed forces ; however only Congress has authority to declare war, and the civilian and military budget is written by the Congress.

They had to contend not only with the Cathars, the nobles who protected them, and the people who respected them, but also with many of the bishops of the region, who resented the considerable authority the Pope had conferred upon his legates.

Although Proust proved his theory by accurate measurements, his theory was not immediately accepted partially due to Berthollet's authority.

In that same year, St-Laurent negotiated the British North America ( No. 2 ) Act, 1949 with Britain which ' partially patriated ' the Canadian Constitution, most significantly giving the Canadian Parliament the authority to amend portions of the constitution.

Allegiance to the tribal sunnah had been partially replaced by submission to a new universal authority and the sense of brotherhood among Muslims.

* Gwent ( county ), a local authority covering a partially overlapping area which existed between 1974-1996 and continued in use as a preserved county.

With the growth of princely authority in Moscow, feudals ' judicial powers were partially diminished and transferred to Vasili's deputies and heads of volosts.

State defense forces ( SDF ) ( also known as state guards, state military reserves, or state militias ) in the United States are military units that operate under the sole authority of a state government ; they are partially regulated by the National Guard Bureau but they are not a part of the Army National Guard of the United States.

* The city of Danzig ( Polish Gdańsk ) with the delta of the Vistula river at the Baltic Sea, was made the Free City of Danzig under the League of Nations and partially Polish authority ( area 1893 km², 408, 000 inhabitants 1929 ).

A certificate authority partially fills such a notary function, attesting to the identity of a key's owner, but not to whether the party was mentally aware or was apparent free from duress ( nor does the certificate authority attest to the date of the signature ).

Subsequently, on November 28, 2005, the United States Supreme Court partially reversed the appellate court's decision, following an appeal by the prosecution — upholding the prosecution view that the Sixth Circuit ignored a constitutionally valid state law, and thus overstepped its authority.

Orthodox historians also maintain that Rome's authority in the early Eastern Roman ( or Byzantine ) empire was recognized only partially because of Rome's Petrine character, and that this factor was not the decisive issue.

-- Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara has asked Congress for authority and funds to build fallout shelters costing about 200 million dollars.

… I also ask this Congress for authority and for funds sufficient to manufacture additional munitions and war supplies of many kinds, to be turned over to those nations which are now in actual war with aggressor nations.

Municipalities were gathered into districts, which are regional centres of state authority, but have no assemblies of their own ; they present purely administrative divisions, and host various state institutions such as funds, office branches and courts.

It campaigned on local issues, seeking to influence the unitary authority Portsmouth City Council ; awarded funds to local causes ; and funded infrastructure improvements in the local area.

In contrast, in a centralized authority, even minute proportions of public funds can be large sums of money.

This action removes the chief check on his authority, and allows Ptolemy to obtain the sizable funds that Cleomenes has accumulated.

According to the Augustan-era historian Livy, Numa Pompilius, a Sabine, devised Rome's system of religious rites, including the manner and timing of sacrifices, the supervision of religious funds, authority over all public and private religious institutions, instruction of the populace in the celestial and funerary rites including appeasing the dead, and expiation of prodigies.

However, the regional councils do have authority over infrastructure and land use planning, distribution of state and federal funds for infrastructure projects, emergency preparedness, and limited law enforcement duties.

He also asked the General Assembly to appropriate funds for a one-time staff buyout ; to work with him in revising budgetary and human resources rules ; to grant the Secretary-General more managerial authority and flexibility ; to strengthen the Office of Internal Oversight Services ; and " to review all mandates older than five years to see whether the activities concerned are still genuinely needed or whether the resources assigned to them can be reallocated in response to new and emerging challenges ".

The Federal Reserve now has authority, granted by Congress in the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act ( EESA ) of 2008, to pay interest on these funds.

Under the FTC Act, the federal courts retain their traditional authority to issue equitable relief, including the appointment of receivers, monitors, the imposition of asset freezes to guard against the spoliation of funds, immediate access to business premises to preserve evidence, and other relief including financial disclosures and expedited discovery.

Next, the East India Company threatened legal action on the grounds that the Scots had no authority from the king to raise funds outside the English realm, and obliged the promoters to refund subscriptions to the Hamburg investors.

Moreover, while the Manhattan Project still had funds, the wartime organization was expected to be phased out when a new authority came into existence.

The financial information of the TDD authority is not public and there is no transparency as to how the funds are used.

* The International Oversight Advisory ( IOA ) co-ordinates funds and control between the nations of the Earth Stargate ; the Atlantis Expedition was sent to the Pegasus Galaxy under its authority.

In 2005 the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that the governor had no authority to expend funds without legislative approval, and that if legislators failed to pass a budget in the future, only expenditures explicitly authorized in the state constitution could be made.

During this period as mayor he was heavily supported by the Prime Minister of Albania at the time, Ilir Meta, who channeled numerous funds from the central government to the local authority of Tirana, enabling Rama to implement the cleaning master project.

The authority of the U. S. Treasury to advance funds for the purpose of stabilizing Fannie Mae, or Freddie Mac is limited only by the amount of debt that the entire federal government is permitted by law to commit to.

Seligman argued in its suit that Spitzer had overstepped his authority by attempting to oversee how Seligman's funds set their advisory fee and that the regulatory oversight of fees is left by Congress to the SEC.

The law made it, unlawful for any teacher or other instructor in any university, college, normal, public school or other institution of the state which is supported in whole or in part from public funds derived by state or local taxation to teach the theory or doctrine that mankind ascended or descended from a lower order of animals, and also that it be unlawful for any teacher, textbook commission, or other authority exercising the power to select textbooks for above-mentioned institutions to adopt or use in any such institution a textbook that teaches the doctrine or theory that mankind ascended or descended from a lower order of animal.

In some instances, a quasi-governmental authority was formed, and toll revenue bonds were issued to raise funds for construction and / or operation of the facility.

He negotiated in 1853 a treaty with the nizam, which provided funds for the maintenance of the contingent kept up by the British in support of that princes authority, by the assignment of the Berars in lieu of annual payments of the cost and large outstanding arrears.

Parliament gives statutory authority for the Government to draw funds from the Consolidated Fund by Acts of Parliament known as Appropriation Acts and Consolidated Fund Acts.

The PWG Report recommended: ( 1 ) the codification into the CEA, as an “ exclusion ”, of existing regulatory exemptions for OTC financial derivatives, revised to permit electronic trading between “ eligible swaps participants ” ( acting as “ principals ”) and to even allow standardized ( i. e. “ fungible ”) contracts subject to “ regulated ” clearing ; ( 2 ) continuation of the existing CFTC authority to exempt other non-agricultural commodities ( such as energy products ) from provisions of the CEA ; ( 3 ) continuation of existing exemptions for “ hybrid instruments ” expanded to cover the Shad-Johnson Accord ( thereby exempting from the CEA any hybrid that could be viewed as a future on a “ non-exempt security ”), and a prohibition on the CFTC changing the exemption without the agreement of the other members of the PWG ; ( 4 ) continuation of the preemption of state laws that might otherwise make any “ excluded ” or “ exempted ” transactions illegal as gambling or otherwise ; ( 5 ) as previously recommended by the PWG in its report on hedge funds, the expansion of SEC and CFTC “ risk assessment ” oversight of affiliates of securities firms and commodity firms engaged in OTC derivatives activities to ensure they did not endanger affiliated broker-dealers or futures commission merchants ; ( 6 ) encouraging the CFTC to grant broad “ deregulation ” of existing exchange trading to reflect differences in ( A ) the susceptibility of commodities to price manipulation and ( B ) the “ sophistication ” and financial strength of the parties permitted to trade on the exchange ; and ( 7 ) permission for single stock and narrow index stock futures on terms to be agreed between the CFTC and SEC.