Sentence examples for authority by which from inspiring English sources

The problem is with the long, fictional notion of authority by which we are all supposed to be connected.

In other words, the federal statute is the source of the power and authority by which any private rights are lost or sacrificed.

I differ with my brethren only as to the authority by which such measures should be enacted, and as to the validity of the legislation before us.

Leaving aside, for now, the experience or competence of the corporation's officials in city-making, the authority by which the agency operates is open to question.

And it is the duty of the marshal, or other person having the custody of the prisoner, to make known to the judge or court, by a proper return, the authority by which he holds him in custody.

It is conceded in the opinion of the majority that congress has full control over interstate commerce, and that it is the only authority by which that commerce can be regulated.

This is so elementary as to require no reference to the multitude of authorities by which it is sustained.

In 1874 Curtius concluded an agreement with the Greek authorities by which the excavations in Olympia were entrusted exclusively to the Germans.

The separatists had them, and said that they were waiting to hand them over to the proper international authorities — by which they may have meant someone in Russia who could tamper with the contents.

"By which authority did we deny Asher a mohel?/By which authority did we deny Asher a rebbe?" he asks.

The second of these, as characterized by Marmor (2011), requires legal authority to be "personal" by which one means that the norm by authored.