Sentence examples for alternative authority from inspiring English sources

It takes away from his ability to be an alternative authority".

(b) This Court rejects petitioner's invocation of courts' "inherent supervisory power" as alternative authority for the District Court's action.

The monarch's right to appoint the prime minister may look to some churls like a leap back into the past, but why cast around for an alternative authority when this "obvious choice" is ready to hand?

(d) The agency or person takes all appropriate measures to ensure the timely transmission of the same home study that was provided to the prospective adoptive parent(s) or to DHS to the Central Authority of the child's country of origin (or to an alternative authority designated by that Central Authority).

No where is safe enough in Syria to set up a nationwide shadow government inside Syria, but at a local level alternative authorities and networks are forming, Berman said.

Here, recognition of local gods as alternative authorities to the state asserts Tibetan local autonomy and cultural identity, and also defines communal territory where Tibetans reclaimed authority in the face of perceived government failure to define boundaries and protect a livelihood source now intimately tied to rural Tibetan lives.

As an "alternative statutory authority," a senior administration official pointed to the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force "against the continuing threat posed by Iraq". That document was a prelude to the invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

As an alternative, the authority hopes that state lawmakers will pass a financial rescue plan proposed by a state commission headed by Richard Ravitch, a former authority chairman.

The amendment aimed to define the alternative bishops' authority in such a way that it did not derive from that of the woman diocesan bishop.

An amendment before the synod on Wednesday aimed to define the alternative bishops' authority in such a way that it did not derive from that of the woman diocesan bishop.

This alternative appointment authority is textually based, historically supported, and has been upheld by numerous court opinions.