Instead, however, he claimed he married Guerrero because she had authoritative powers as the General Manager, and sought a divorce.
On the flip side, prosecutors say that because teachers have special disciplinary and authoritative powers, sexual relations with students is inherently coercive, and the law is designed to protect students in an educational environment.
Akhenaten was a revolutionary leader, who attempted to overturn Egypt's traditional gods; his monumental head casts considerable authoritative power here, which the images of Tut can only answer with elegant delicacy.
Afro-Cuban music is deeply imprinted on it, and between the detailed arrangements of the music and the authoritative power of its rhythm section, Sunday night's concert, part of the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival, struck a neat compromise.
The word they first used, Dr. Leavitt said, made it "sound like God had been working out at the gym," conveying a vision of physical strength rather than authoritative power.
Lexicographers may want to stay away from such contentious issues, but the authoritative power of their dictionaries means they're inevitably caught up in such definitional wars — even as they try to stay above the fray and describe language without worrying about the sensitivities of one side or another in a political dispute.
The group, which included leading influenza researchers and public health officials, has no authoritative power.
Even when a certain law was exceptionally quick to pass, the authoritative power of such laws is commonly restricted to their local jurisdiction.
Appeals to authority are fallacies, where the claim is presented as right because an expert or an authoritative power says it is right (van Eemeren and Grootendorst [1992]).
Relatedly, the Symbolic big Other also can refer to (often fantasmatic/fictional) ideas of anonymous authoritative power and/or knowledge (whether that of God, Nature, History, Society, State, Party, Science, or the analyst as the "subject supposed to know" [sujet supposé savoir] as per Lacan's distinctive account of analytic transference).
The difference between a police officer and the rest of us is that we must answer to them while the police have authoritative power to act with impunity, under the color of the law.
