The elected president, elected parliament and judiciary were made part of a theocracy whose ultimate authority was a "supreme leader" -- a cleric who controls the police, the military and other institutions of power.
The entire government -- with a president, an elected Parliament and a judiciary -- was put inside a theocratic structure whose ultimate authority was a "supreme leader" -- a cleric who controlled the state's enforcement machinery, the police and the military.
China is an oligarchy, not a dictatorship, and ultimate authority will not be vested individually with Xi, but collectively with the Politburo's Standing Committee, which has nine members.
The idea of a captain with ultimate authority goes back 1,000 years, he said, and is hard to overcome.
I'm not fighting charter schools, but we should have a responsibility and ultimate authority of who is in our house".
After a debate late into the night in the city of York, the General Synod of the Church of England, an assembly that holds ultimate authority on church doctrine in Britain, voted by comfortable margins within each of the synod's three houses — bishops, clergy and laity — to approve the consecration of women as bishops in the face of bitter opposition from traditionalists.
The new body of Kurds, Shiites, Sunnis, Christians and Turkmen will share responsibility for running the country under a United Nations resolution that will continue to vest Washington and London with ultimate authority until a sovereign government is elected and a new constitution ratified, the officials said.
People are "not conditioned to see a woman as the ultimate authority figure," she added, though "things are changing," however slowly.
Narcotics Anonymous literature expresses it more formally: "For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority – a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience".
The rational beings in creation, angels and human beings, enjoy the loan of elements of God's created universe, but this is not a divine abdication of ultimate authority since everything is still directly subject to divine dominium.
