The phrase "a vast authority" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe someone or something that has a great amount of power or influence over a particular subject or area. This could be a person, organization, or even a concept. Example: The CEO of the company was known to have a vast authority in the industry, with other companies often seeking his advice and guidance.
Disagreements are already arising: Mr. Hazare's group wants a Lokpal with vast authority, capable of investigating the prime minister, the judiciary, Parliament members and senior civil servants in the bureaucracy.
Just a few years ago, it was rare to hear public declarations from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claiming vast authority as a theologian.
The war paradigm now seems an indefinite grant of dangerously vast authority to the president.
And far from a limited scope of power, the Director wields vast authority under eighteen statutes previously enforced by seven different agencies.
The Obama administration "really like[s] this idea that the president has vast authority to not enforce the law," Jeremy Rabkin, a law professor at George Mason University, told VICE News, referring to the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015, which gave Congress a say in reviewing the agreement after Obama signed the bill into law in May.
At the same time, this vast authority, not having been seized illegally, and being wielded by a man radically good, who for example really reverenced civil liberty and could tolerate venemous opposition, could never be directed to ends wholly disapproved by the ways of those who conferred it.
At the same time, this vast authority, not having been seized illegally, and being wielded by a man radically good, who for example really reverenced civil liberty and could tolerate venomous opposition, could never be directed to ends wholly disapproved by the ways of those who conferred it.
The Constitution places vast authority for the conduct of foreign relations in the independent hands of the President.
Any president has vast authority to influence policy even without legislation, through executive orders, agency rule-making and administrative fiat.
We should reject bills that are thousands of pages or that delegate vast authority to unelected regulators.
