Sentence examples for a supreme authority from inspiring English sources

Asher considered the Talmud a supreme authority and felt free to disregard the opinions of the most eminent Jewish authorities if their decisions were not based on the Talmud.

One Arab League ambassador at the meeting said that the resolution's most basic element -- its designation of the allied forces as not just "occupying powers" but a supreme "authority" -- caused him the greatest concern.

This college, "together with its head, the Roman Pontiff, and never without this head" is "the subject of supreme and full power over the universal Church," a supreme authority that it can exercise in more than one fashion but "in a solemn way through an ecumenical council".

Only a supreme authority within a territory could strengthen a fractured community.

But there is in fact a definition that captures what sovereignty came to mean in early modern Europe and of which most subsequent definitions are a variant: supreme authority within a territory.

Sovereignty, though its meanings have varied across history, also has a core meaning, supreme authority within a territory.

The indictment says that Chow, 54, whose criminal history includes racketeering and robbery, has a position of "supreme authority" in the Triad, an international organized crime group.

The indictment said Chow, 54, whose criminal history includes racketeering and robbery, had a position of "supreme authority" in the Triad, an international organized crime group.

When he succeeded Jiang Zemin in November, Mr. Jiang packed the ruling council with his protégés and stayed on as chairman of the military, and seemed a genuine rival for supreme authority.

The drive to elevate Mr. Jiang, even as a long-anointed successor waits in the wings, could result in a ragged transfer of supreme authority, clouding what many hoped would be the first orderly, rule-based transition of leadership in the 53-year history of the People's Republic.

These conclusions are ironic since the neorealist explanation of the cause of interstate war is the very condition of international anarchy, understood as the absence of a world government with supreme authority.