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.

Though the President's title implicitly asserted authority in Northern Ireland, in reality the Irish President needed government permission to visit there.

However, a strategy of decentralization is not always so obviously political, even if it relies implicitly on authority delegated via a political system.

Even if a similar bill is enacted, its practical effect may not be clear: proponents of the bill have argued that it is a valid exercise of Congress's power to regulate the jurisdiction of the federal courts under Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution, but opponents question whether Congress has the authority to prevent the Supreme Court from hearing claims based on the Bill of Rights ( since amendments postdate the original text of the Constitution and may thus implicitly limit the scope of Article III, Section 2 ).

For example, the introductory signal " See " tells the reader that the cited authority either ( a ) supports the stated proposition implicitly, or ( b ) contains dicta that support the proposition.

" But see ," on the other hand, tells the reader that the cited authority either ( a ) contradicts the stated proposition implicitly, or ( b ) contains dicta that contradict the stated proposition.

: Cited authority either contradicts the stated proposition implicitly or contains dicta that contradict the stated proposition.

With a goal of establishing a uniform legal framework to replace heterogeneous traditional structures, the reforms were guided at least implicitly by the principles of freedom and equality and were based on a conception of the state's central legislative authority.

Ordinarily, keys are generated by a certificate authority or a key generation center ( KGC ) who is given complete power and is implicitly trusted.

And, as I mentioned, it seems to me that evangelical feminism involves, implicitly at least, a denial of the authority of the Bible.

Fan Kuai then made a lengthy speech about Liu Bang's accomplishments, stating how it would be unjust for Xiang Yu to kill Liu, but also implicitly affirming that Liu would not challenge Xiang's authority.

A board's activities are determined by the powers, duties, and responsibilities delegated to it or conferred on it by an authority outside itself.

This argument is based on the view that the surviving anti-Treaty members of the Second Dáil delegated their " authority " to the IRA Army Council in 1938.

may consist of only one domain, or may consist of many domains and sub-domains, depending on the administrative authority delegated to the manager.

Two bodies oversee the administration of the college, the Board of Corporators and the Board of Trustees ; while the Corporators are the official legal owners of the college, in practice most authority is delegated to the Trustees, who are elected by the Corporators.

Himmler adopted the doctrine of Auftragstaktik (" mission command "), whereby orders were given as broad directives, with authority delegated downward to the appropriate level to carry them out in a timely and efficient manner.

However, in 1943, at the request of General George C. Marshall, approval authority for U. S. personnel was delegated to the War Department.

While the Academic Senate is an independent body, it is required to make recommendations to the university Council in relation to matters outside its delegated authority.

The military policing responsibilities of the Marshal of France were delegated to the Marshal's provost, whose force was known as the Marshalcy because its authority ultimately derived from the Marshal.

The Council by itself also has a delegated authority to issue Orders of Council, which are mostly used to regulate certain public institutions.

However, the Supreme Court has ruled that Congress does have latitude to delegate regulatory powers to executive agencies as long as it provides an " intelligible principle " which governs the agency's exercise of the delegated regulatory authority.

Under the U. S. Constitution the President and Vice President are chosen by Electors, under a constitutional grant of authority delegated to the legislatures of the several states and the District of Columbia ( see Bush v. Gore ).

In telecommunication, frequency assignment authority is the power granted an administration, or its designated or delegated leader or agency via treaty or law, to specify frequencies, or frequency bands, in the electromagnetic spectrum for use in systems or equipment.

While the bishop of Rome had always been viewed as the chief patriarch in the Western church, much of the pope's authority was delegated to local diocesan bishops.

A new position, that of the vizier, was also established to delegate central authority, and even greater authority was delegated to local emirs.

During his early meetings with Mullá Husayn, the Báb described himself as the Master and the Promised One ; he did not consider himself just Siyyid Kazim's successor, but claimed a prophetic status, with a sense of deputyship delegated to him not just from the Hidden Imam, but from Divine authority ; His early texts, such as the Commentary on the Surih of Joseph, used Quranic language that implied divine authority and identified himself effectively with the Imam.

In Anglo-Saxon England, earls had authority over their own regions and right of judgment in provincial courts, as delegated by the king.

From August 1429 the king delegated royal authority to Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar for the keeping of the peace in the north and west.

Unknown to the US, the Soviet field commanders in Cuba had been given authority to launch — the only time such authority was delegated by higher command.

Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization at the time, personally delegated the authority to carry out executions of Palestinians.