The phrase "authority the extent" is not correct and does not form a coherent expression in written English.
It seems to be an incomplete thought and lacks clarity, making it unusable without additional context.
Example: "The authority the extent of their power is often debated in legal circles."
Alternatives: "the scope of authority" or "the extent of power".
The aspects of an official decision or an administrative act that may be scrutinized by the judicial process are the competence of the public authority, the extent of a public authority's legal powers, the adequacy and fairness of the procedure, the evidence considered in arriving at the administrative decision and the motives underlying it, and the nature and scope of the discretionary power.
This is but one application of the more general issue of first-person authority: the extent to which people have special or privileged knowledge of their own mental states and experiences [see SEP entry on "Self-Knowledge"].
Sandford's plot seems to have been feebly unsophisticated; he told authorities the extent of his training was a visit the day before the rally to a gun range, where he fired 20 rounds from a 9mm Glock pistol, a common service weapon, to learn how to use one.
Notwithstanding the preceding list of authorities, an authority does not continue to be an authority to the extent it is overruled or modified, implicitly or explicitly, by a body with the power to overrule or modify the earlier authority.
Nothing can be interposed between the individual and the obligation he owes to the constitution and laws of the United States, which can shield or defend him from their just authority, and the extent and limits of that authority the government of the United States, by means of its judicial power, interprets and applies for itself.
For such firms, which include essentially every major bank, the bureau would lose its authority "to the extent such [company] is engaged in the business of insurance".
"an employee of a contractor (or subcontractor at any tier) of... any other Federal agency, or any provisional authority, to the extent such employment relates to supporting the mission of the Department of Defense overseas".
The dollar limit to this authority, to the extent that it relates to financial approval authority, is documented in the university's Authority Manager System.
The United States should propose to ease oil and financial sanctions, using presidential waiver authority to the extent permitted by law.
Attention is paid to the municipal authority and the extent of its legal and fiscal discretion, inter-agency coordination and community participation: these are all central to municipal management and to optimize the effect of public policies and urban planning.
When the board issued the Dinkins ruling on Monday, it said he could delegate his authority "to the extent permitted by law" and added the same phrase in its final ruling on Mr. Stein.
