The phrase "acquired authority" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the authority or power that someone has gained through experience, knowledge, or position.
Example: "After years of dedicated service, she has acquired authority in her field, making her a respected leader among her peers."
Alternatives: "gained authority" or "established authority".
They acquired authority, actually a canonical status, however, that caused them to be regarded with profound reverence and thus, in effect, as sacred.
There were more than a dozen men patrolling the field who looked like coaches, and not a few of them with the weathered skin and receded or whitened hair to suggest acquired authority.
By surpassing expectations, Cameron has acquired authority, an essay-crisis PM who scored another 1st; but the road ahead is harder than the one he's yet taken, with very sharp reductions in public spending to come from who knows where.
Therefore, for the first time, the Plebeians seemed to have indirectly acquired authority over Patricians.
Armed with newly acquired authority under the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions as well as consensus from across the aisle, he was ready to "get this done".
In this sense, local leaders with their newly acquired authority were able to lobby for necessary financial and human resources for the efficient operation of the health centres.
A popular one acquires authority and a freedom to act.
But if you imagine a decentralized Church, in which local parishes and bishoprics have far more autonomy and there are many other ways of acquiring authority and serving, the priesthood recedes in importance.
By the end of the 3rd century the bishop of the provincial capital was acquiring authority over his colleagues: the metropolitan (from the 4th century on, often entitled archbishop) was chief consecrator of his episcopal colleagues.
But he also insisted that conquerors acquire authority over those they subject to their rule — "sovereignty by acquisition" — when they allow those subjects to go about their business.
Prisoners often form their own unspoken hierarchies, acquiring authority by preying on new inmates to gain power.
