The phrase "authority rod" is not a standard or commonly used expression in written English.
It may be used in a specific context related to authority or control, but without further context, its meaning is unclear.
Example: "The manager used the authority rod to enforce the new policies within the team."
Alternatives: "power tool" or "control device".
The establishment has become a lightning rod for authorities seeking new ways to combat the proliferating massage parlors.
Mr. Clemens, the acknowledged authority on building custom rods, also happens to operate a catalog operation in Pennsylvania that sells everything from the "blanks" or unfinished fiberglass or graphite rods to superexpensive titanium "guides" (the rings the line runs through).
Public servants with large salaries are like lightning rods, and the authority has drawn bolts of public criticism recently for its executive pay scale, said a transit spokesman, John Cunningham.
"I have met with both Barak and Sharon, and my line is that it is also in the interest of Israel that the Palestinian authority doesn't collapse," Mr. Rod-Larsen said in an interview, "because that will produce a situation of anarchy that will make a difficult security situation.
Many carry a rod to indicate their authority.
Tom's world is an overtly homosocial and homosexual one, a world dominated by denim-clad authority figures who rule with a rod of iron and a massive, massive cock.
Tom's world is an overtly homosocial and homosexual one, a world dominated by denim-clad authority figures who rule with a rod of iron and a massive cock.
Abroon N, 13, from Somalia, said Libyan authorities imprisoned him and beat him around the head with a metal rod.
Doctors told the authorities that the boy had most likely been beaten by a metal rod or baseball bat.
A case like this can become a lightning rod for those who want to keep the states from using their authority to get involved in corporate disclosure.
The "fasces", the bundle of whipping rods around a double-bladed axe that became an emblem of authority for the Romans, was almost certainly of Etruscan origin.
