The phrase "a specific authority" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a particular person or organization that has the power or right to make decisions or enforce rules in a certain context.
Example: "In this case, we need to consult a specific authority to ensure compliance with the regulations."
Alternatives: "a particular authority" or "a designated authority".
This method did not have any specific authority making sure that essential tasks were getting done.
"The government could address this argument in greater detail and identify any specific authority to support its position".
Prior to the TEU, the Community lacked any specific authority to develop policies that had public health protection as their 'principal or sole justification'.
A lawyer for the cities, Thomas C. Goldstein, responded that there are times when courts should draw distinctions between an agency's general authority to interpret a law and its specific authority to interpret a particular provision of the law based on the text of the statute.
In the context of voting rights, an area over which the 15th Amendment gives Congress specific authority, this is a deeply problematic position that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's dissenting opinion demolishes.
Hackman's definition of real teams requires the following criteria: a team task, clear boundaries, specific authority to manage their own work processes and high membership stability [ 23].
While it may not have the specific authority to regulate a voucher, it does indeed have the ability to stop an airline from making false or misleading claims.
Justice Ginsburg said that no specific authority was needed, given a half-century of general precedent that applied "even to conduct startling in its novelty" — throwing people out of a public government event for views expressed elsewhere.
However, Mr. Shmulewitz said, a board generally cannot impose a blanket ban on all prospective subletting without the specific authority to do so being contained in the proprietary lease.
