Authority in a sentence as a noun

Do I have no moral authority to speak up in this situation if I have not before?Maybe we should boycott Amazon.

Rather than deferring to Congress, the FCC chose to adopt a new rationale for its assertion of this authority.

High school bullies are typically quite good at restricting their bullying to times when they're unlikely to be spotted by an authority figure.

Barack Obama will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of authority in government.

" In other words, there is no all-seeing, all-knowing authority supervising the process who declares that the offering is substantively sound.

And that kind of unrestrained authority makes us nervous about follow-on initiatives like broadcast flags and indecency campaigns.

In reality, if any persons - right-thinking or not - are given largely unchecked authority over our lives, abuses will inevitably follow.

It's the other way around, actually: by law in the US and most countries worldwide, suppliers are free to set whatever prices and terms they like, but retailers have the final authority to set the price that's presented to the retail customer.

Congress overwhelmingly balked at the idea of any broad assertion of such authority and, in the back and forth, the FCC came up with the toe-in-the water approach just adopted to the satisfaction of almost no one. Even this assertion of jurisdiction will certainly be challenged in the courts in cases that will take years to decide, leaving this whole issue in a pathetic state of uncertainty for all concerned.

Given that this will likely trigger an audit and potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars of fines for you, how about we just agree to give my client what he has coming to him, and you report an inadvertent paperwork screwup to the tax authority when you pay your fair share?

It's no accident that the author turns to the authority of feminists for perspectives on men -- despite that being so laughly outside the remit of feminism -- because the entire point, unstated but present, throughout the article is that women have 'got it right' and men should be more like women.

In general, we think arguments that regulating the Internet is 'ancillary' to some other regulatory authority that the FCC has been granted just don’t have sufficient limitations to stop bad FCC behavior in the future and create the 'Trojan horse' risk we have long warned about.

The money transmitter laws are basically laws that give state governments the authority to require that bonds be provided, that minimum capitalization requirements be met, and that other precautions taken, to ensure that whoever handles escrowed monies takes prudent steps to protect those whose funds are entrusted to them.

If she's too tough she's marked as an "angry *****" and will get rejected, if she's not perfectly competent in areas far outside of her job function, she'll be marked as "stupid" and get rejected, etc. etc. Cultivating authority, for a woman, requires a degree of careful presentation and balance that is very hard to do and most men don't have to deal with.

"Dumbblack""then proceeds to do what black men always cant help but do""black men always telling which way is up because they feel they are the authority when it comes to any and everything, most often when they dont know **** about ****"" I know when black people start to speak down to me from their pedatsol which is white privilege, they arent listening, nor will they""I cannot afford to take black peoples **** anymore.

Authority definitions

noun

the power or right to give orders or make decisions; "he has the authority to issue warrants"; "deputies are given authorization to make arrests"; "a place of potency in the state"

See also: authorization authorisation potency dominance say-so

noun

(usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others; "the authorities have issued a curfew"

noun

an expert whose views are taken as definitive; "he is an authority on corporate law"

noun

freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities; "his assurance in his superiority did not make him popular"; "after that failure he lost his confidence"; "she spoke with authority"

See also: assurance self-assurance confidence self-confidence sureness

noun

an administrative unit of government; "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority"

See also: agency bureau office

noun

official permission or approval; "authority for the program was renewed several times"

See also: authorization authorisation sanction

noun

an authoritative written work; "this book is the final authority on the life of Milton"