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authority

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By doing so, Facebook has effectively taken away medical experts’ and doctors’ authority on health-related matters and handed it over to the general public.

State and federal agencies have somewhat overlapping authority to regulate coal industry pollution.

Now, when we get on the ground, we’re still under the command and control of the governor and the adjutant general, the top military officer of the Illinois National Guard, but we’re generally placed under a civilian authority at the emergency.

Like Wiley, Gostin said lawsuits over a governor’s legal authority and separation of powers are more likely to succeed than those about individual liberties.

However, in practice, we often see that the so-called YMYL websites already can’t rank without having some expertise and authority established.

You get these high-profile people that go into prison, and the staff abuse their authority.

They selected an “easy mark” who turned out to be an off-duty NYC Housing Authority cop named James Carragher.

But the last national figure to wield ancient personal authority in an explicitly religious way was Robert F. Kennedy.

I have it on good authority these quotes are 100 percent accurate, if not 100 percent verbatim.

But the authority of his name far exceeds that of our own, famous or obscure though we be.

A distinguished-looking man, evidently vested with authority, bustled forward and addressed him, civilly enough.

"Here's my authority, yuh blasted runt," he yelled, and jerked his six-shooter to a level with the policeman's breast.

"The authority of Mademoiselle de La Vauvraye," was the unanswerable rejoinder.

In the next chapter he gives his twelve disciples authority over demons.

That of M. Charles Guenllette is the authority followed here.

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What are other ways to say authority?

Authority is a power or right, usually because of rank or office, to issue commands and to punish for violations: to have authority over subordinates. Control is either power or influence applied to the complete and successful direction or manipulation of persons or things: to be in control of a project. Influence is a personal and unofficial power derived from deference of others to one’s character, ability, or station; it may be exerted unconsciously or may operate through persuasion: to have influence over one’s friends.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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