One historical authority presents laborious and circuitous testimony tending to arouse suspicion that Massachusetts was behind the clouds settling down on the embattled Gorton.

`` I was told it on good authority '', Claire answered darkly.

In December I wrote her with authority that we would meet on the steps of the Hotel Astor, a rendezvous spot that I had learned was the most sophisticated.

An excellent summary of advantages concerning the uniform fiscal year and coordinated fiscal calendars was contained in a paper presented by a public finance authority recently.

The authority for the program was renewed several times until the vocational rehabilitation program was made permanent as Title 5, of the Social Security Act in 1935.

Richard S. Allen is the authority for the statement that the northern section was probably roofed by 1810.

The legislative mills have been grinding ever since, and when its cumbersome processes were no longer adequate to the task, a limited legislative authority was delegated in one form or another, to the executive.

To free the factors of production was a major objective of the rising bourgeoisie, and this objective required that governmental authority -- administrative officials and judges -- be limited as precisely and explicitly as possible ; ;

It may seem strange that a poet should come to full fruition in his seventies, but we have it on Hardy's own authority that `` he was a child till he was sixteen, a youth till he was five-and-twenty, and a young man till he was nearly fifty '' ( Early Life, p. 42 ).

She liked this taste of authority and independence, and, with darkness, was not likely to give it up.

The red-haired captain, towering above the prisoner as a symbol of decency and authority, was shocked to find himself looking with sympathy upon Philip Spencer.

As the South was in a state of insurrection, Lincoln exercised his authority to suspend habeas corpus in that situation, arresting and detaining thousands of suspected secessionists without their trials.

Douglas said that Lincoln was defying the authority of the U. S. Supreme Court and the Dred Scott decision.

In the late 1980s and 1990s authors such as George Marcus and James Clifford pondered ethnographic authority, in particular how and why anthropological knowledge was possible and authoritative.

He was permitted to call on governors of Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi for new troops, although this authority was largely stifled by politics, especially with respect to Mississippi.

So Gilruth was given authority to grow his organization into a new NASA center, the Manned Spacecraft Center ( MSC ).

Although not the equal of Achilles in bravery, Agamemnon was a representative of kingly authority.

Hasan Ali Shah's authority thereafter was not seriously challenged again.

Suggesting her marriage to Claudius was to a weak emperor who was, because of his hesitations and terrors, a threat to the imperial authority and government.

This temporary Peace Corps is being established under existing authority in the Mutual Security Act and will be located in the Department of State.

It is usually stated on the authority of Ephorus, that Pheidon of Argos established a mint in Aegina.

Colonel Zerbo established the Military Committee of Recovery for National Progress as the supreme governmental authority, thus eradicating the 1977 constitution.

The Belfast Education and Library Board was established in 1973 as the local authority responsible for education, youth and library services within the city.

" In effect, the provision operated as a reception statute, giving legal authority to the established common law in the vast territories where no states had yet been established.

In 1974, following a coup sponsored by the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and executed by the Cypriot National Guard the invasion of troops from Turkey ( citing its authority as one of the three guarantor powers established by the Constitution ), the Turkish Cypriots formally set up their own institutions with a popularly-elected separatist president and a Prime Minister, responsible to the National Assembly, exercising joint executive powers.

Historically, the term often referred to the combination of economic liberalism, which champions laissez-faire markets, with the classical conservatism concern for established tradition, respect for authority and religious values.

From the day King Leopold II established colonial authority in what is now Congo-Kinshasa to today, the country's government has been unstable.

Since the fall of the Republic, the authority of the Roman Senate had largely eroded under the quasi-monarchical system of government established by Augustus, known as the Principate.

A referendum held in 1998, established public will to create a strategic authority for Greater London.

The medieval guild was established by charters or letters patent or similar authority by the city or the ruler and normally held a monopoly on trade in its craft within the city in which it operated: handicraft workers were forbidden by law to run any business if they were not members of a guild, and only masters were allowed to be members of a guild.

The " Partition Sejm " under duress " ratified " the partition fait accompli, but in 1773 also established the Commission of National Education, a pioneering in Europe government education authority.

He established the Zulu Kingdom, asserting authority over the Ndwandwe and pushing the Swazi north.

These bodies were legally established but had no authority to oblige governments to adopt their recommendations.

* 1960 – The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote issuing authority, is established.

In the late 1960s Sartre supported the Maoists, a movement that rejected the authority of established communist parties.

: One of the most ancient and most established instruments of power was the court of Star Chamber, which possessed an unlimited discretionary authority of fining, imprisoning, and inflicting corporal punishment, and whose jurisdiction extended to all sorts of offenses, contempts, and disorders, that lay not within reach of the common law.

From the 1040s onwards, however, successive popes had put forward a reforming message that emphasised the importance of the church being " governed more coherently and more hierarchically from the centre " and established " its own sphere of authority and jurisdiction, separate from and independent of that of the lay ruler ", in the words of historian Richard Huscroft.

Her excavation of the Early Bronze Age walled city and the external cemeteries of the end of the Early Bronze Age, together with her analysis of the stratified pottery of these periods established her as the leading authority on that period.

Sawyer established his authority over most of Monrovia, with the help of a paramilitary police force, the ' Black Berets ', under Brownie Samukai, while the rest of the country was in the hands of the various warring factions.

As part of an effort to decentralize administration, Madagascar's six administrative provinces ( faritany mizakatena ), established under the French colonial authority in 1946, were subdivided into 22 regions ( faritra ) in 2004.

However no legal authority was established and federal control of the area was not clearly established until 1877.

Imam Azzan understood that to unify the country a strong, central authority had to be established with control over the interior tribes of Oman.