Yet, in asserting that powerlessness, Marshall claimed for the Court an even more potent authority -- the right to determine that federal laws, duly enacted by the Congress and the President, are unconstitutional and therefore unenforceable.
The most potent authority — the one that still has the Olympian power of old — is the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Nevertheless, it was symptomatic of Hamilton's abiding frustration at working alongside the most potent authority figure in all of American history.
How the agency wields its potent authority over the nation's radio frequencies will truly determine the future of the Internet.
He urged me to consider what might have happened if Wilson had known Brown, or Brown's grandmother, and was able to say, "Does Miss Jenny know you're out here?" Such a question, Reverend Wilson said, has a more potent moral authority.
We theorise the results by considering how contraceptive medicalisation enabled some women to engage with the authority of normative society, while developing a potent off-stage critique of this authority and of what they considered to be discriminatory messages imbedded in scientific discourses on teenage pregnancy.
By taking the medicalisation of contraceptives into their own hands that is, by using the pill in a purposefully interrupted fashion and by debating the limits of medical knowledge regarding the pill's effects young women who became teenage mothers were able to engage with the authority of medicine and normative society, while developing a potent off-stage critique of this authority.
In the first chapter, the authors call the phenomenon of an inquiry a "potent weapon" often used by authorities to quell dissent.
A potent symbol of his power and authority was a dazzling emerald and pearl necklace which had been a family treasure for centuries.
But the ability of still images to put across indirect, complex and new ideas remains a potent communication tool, and their vivid authority through the eyes of the individual photographer has the potential to change minds and sometimes, even, to change our world for the better.
The burnt portrait is a potent symbol of his loss of authority here.
