legal authority

If Congress has lost ground to the president, it has never been for want of legal authority.

President Obama has the legal authority to stop deportations.

We can still have Net Neutrality in America—but the FCC must reclaim its legal authority immediately.

In three weeks, the U.S. Treasury is poised to run out of its legal authority to issue debt.

By mid-October, the U.S. government will run out of the legal authority to issue new debt.

But she was quick to discriminate between usurpation, and legal authority.

There remained, however, serious differences of opinion as to the degree of legal authority to which they were entitled.

But ecclesiastical discipline would not yield to legal authority.

The actual or legal authority of Clovis could not receive any new accessions from the consular dignity.

He had refused to govern as a lawful prince, and he saw himself deprived of even his legal authority.