In response to written questions, Alexander Strakh, Microsoft's chief antipiracy lawyer in Moscow, said that in all these cases, Microsoft assisted the authorities only as called for under Russian law.
An alarm-systems engineer identified by the authorities only as Robert M., who confessed to pulling off the greatest art theft in Austrian history, said he acted on impulse while drunk in 2003, Agence France-Presse reported, citing an Austrian news agency.
Identified by German authorities only as a 28-year-old Russian-born German named Alex W., he had called Ms. Sherbini an Islamist, a terrorist and a slut when she asked him to make room for her son on the playground swings.
The fact that most employers rely on agency staff can also create frustration among permanent colleagues, especially where people have left the authority only to return as agency staff a few months later.
But the courts' authority can be only as great as the general respect for them.
The mayor picks the Board of Water and Power Commissioners, who serve at his pleasure and who have only as much authority as the he chooses to give them.
Note that even though legitimate authority is defined as a special case of effective authority, only the former is appropriately described as a service conception.
As its formal authority, only the manager can commit the unit to important new courses of action; and as its nerve center, only the manager has full and current information to make the set of decisions that determines the unit's strategy.
According to the authority, only a minority will be affected as a majority of children qualifying for free transport attend their nearest school in the catchment area.
But only as long as organised faith was kept separate from political authority.
