The phrase "authority in the name of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to someone acting with the power or permission granted by a particular entity or individual.
Example: "The officer acted with authority in the name of the law to enforce the regulations."
Alternatives: "power on behalf of" or "mandate from".
Jesus refuses miracle, mystery and authority in the name of a radical freedom of conscience.
The name was at first applied to territories both in Italy and wherever else a Roman official exercised authority in the name of the Roman state.
But the affair further illustrates a weakening of parliamentary authority in the name of modernisation that despises "men in tights" traditions.
Locke's separation of church and state stood at the beginning of a debate about the limits of religious dissent from civic authority in the name of not unduly hampering an individual's or a group's spiritual practices.
In his final months in office, Alexander publicly argued for new cybersecurity legislation that would expand the NSA and Cyber Command's authority in the name of safeguarding US business networks from foreign attack.
Since 1603 the hereditary shoguns were members of the powerful Tokugawa family, who, while they claimed authority in the name of the emperors in Kyoto, in fact ran the government as they wanted, from their capital in Edo Tokyoo).
The second small bomb detonated in a restaurant near La Rigoletta, called Enco, which had been evacuated following warning calls to the authorities in the name of ETA.
Since the department had always publicly said that it wasn't stopping the money but merely moving it to local authorities in the name of efficiency, this information was certainly new, if not unexpected.
These include a law requiring students who received state scholarships to stay in Hungary or pay them back if they leave; a ban on political advertising in private media; and a law allowing local authorities, in the name of public order, to fine or jail homeless people living on the street.
The danger is that a public desensitized to claims to extraordinary circumstances could be more likely to allow excesses of authority performed in the name of those circumstances.
Sovereignty and dictatorship had become fused in the novel institution of sovereign dictatorship: A sovereign dictator is a dictator who does not defend an already existing constitution but attempts to create a new one and who does so not by his own authority but in the name of the people (D 112 31).
