The phrase "act of authority" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an action taken by someone in a position of power or control, often in a formal or official context.
Example: "The decision to implement the new policy was an act of authority that surprised many employees."
Alternatives: "exercise of power" or "assertion of control".
The planned subject matter is examples of what they find "impersonal" and "Absurd" in some acts of authority.
Speak and act with an air of authority.
Lawyers for the student, Ali Saleh Kahlah arguedrin angued in appealeal filed in federal court in Illinois that Mr. Bush's June 23 order declaring Mr. Marri to be an operative for Al Qaeda and an enemy combatant represented an act of "unbridled authority" that was illegal and unconstitutional.
Adam has a "design flaw": Adam supplants Dr. Walsh's existence with technology, finding her unnecessary and killing her an act of questioning authority.
That 17 year ban on federally-funded gun violence research was lifted by President Obama under an act of executive authority after the Sandy Hook massacre.
The United States became a nation on the premise of the simple notion that there was nothing more patriotic than the act of questioning authority, and that is the only way it will survive as a country of free people.
Someone drove up a ramp near the Oklahoma capitol steps overnight and into a disputed granite monument of the Ten Commandments, smashing it to pieces in an apparent act of vandalism, authorities said.
Although President Barack Obama on Tuesday said that the attacks were being investigated as an "act of terrorism," authorities still don't know what motivated the attack, or whether foreign or domestic groups or individuals were behind it.
Nor did the court address whether a nuisance suit over carbon dioxide emissions would be proper but for the Clean Air Act's grant of authority to the federal environmental agency.
This new paradigm found its way into the 1993 Omnibus Reconciliation Act's grant of authority to the FCC to auction wireless licenses in a way that permitted the creation of a robustly competitive multi-firm wireless industry, supplanting the two-firm duopoly that had previously been in place.
