But the International Campaign for Tibet's report contends that the authorities are not merely punishing separatists, but also dissidents of all stripes who dare to criticize the government and defend Tibetans' cultural and religious identity.
In the rehearsal room and on camera, his stature encouraged younger colleagues to defer to his authority and to his judgment, not merely as a senior figure but as the purveyor of a wisdom, empathy and gravitas seldom encountered.
That significance lies in the court's decision being regarded as having practical, and not merely theoretical, authority over the content of the law.
A legislator is one who has authority to make laws, and not merely someone with great social power, and it is doubtful that "habits of obedience" is a candidate reduction for explaining authority.
Certainties were being exploded, and perhaps there was a new integrity in experimentalism and confusion, in a cinema which challenged not merely the authorities who had allowed the horrors to happen, but which challenged those classical forms of storytelling and representation culturally licensed by the powers-that-be.
Such interventions were strongly opposed by many secular clerics who argued that bishops had their authority by divine law and were not merely agents of the Pope.[66] During the 13th and 14th centuries Popes also claimed the right to intervene in affairs normally the province of secular rulers.
His authority, he believed, rested on heredity and not merely on the will of the Chamber; his proper function was to participate actively in decision making and not merely to appoint ministers who would govern in his name.
The problem is not merely that the American authorities still seem unsure who is to blame.
The view that MMR would be mandatory if measles were a serious disease, and not merely recommended by health authorities, dominated the reports by vaccination-opposed parents.
The extent to which the Commission has the authority to review transactions, including mergers, is therefore not merely of technical interest.
