"authority to command" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the power or right of a person to give orders or control others or things. For example, "The commander had the authority to command his troops on the battlefield."
"U.S. Supreme Court justices live in the knowledge that they have the authority to command or to block great social, political and economic change," she wrote.
Most crucially, she's a film director, which, like few other creative professions, requires a military temperament and the authority to command and marshall hundreds.
The woman said that Chapo's rearrest in 2014 had created tension in the region, because the son he had left in charge, Iván Archivaldo, lacked the necessary authority to command.
A man undaunted, unlike Moyes, by the scale of Manchester United with firm beliefs in his approach and the authority to command complete respect from his players.
That means that the United States government currently deems that it has the authority to command user data from each using a domestic search warrant even if that information is stored in an overseas datacenter.
There are, after all, many different possible normative systems, for example religious ones, that claim to have moral authority to command obedience, but law is distinctive among them because it has the possibility to compel compliance with the edicts of justified authorities.
Nunn's best achievement, however, is to have released the Shakespearean inside Kevin Spacey and shown that he has the kingly authority naturally to command the Old Vic stage.
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who certainly is the only authority able to command the arrest of the two opposition figures, must have felt the need to silence these outspoken loyalists calling for action, particularly because more protests erupted on March 1.
In that space, the agency is the prime actor, and the very conclusion that Congress has delegated authority to it commands reviewing courts to act, not as deciders, but as overseers.
As midtown office space has tightened in recent years, the authority has been able to command higher rents at the Trade Center.
Authority is "the right to command, and correlatively, the right to be obeyed" (p. 4), which entails that anyone subject to authority has an obligation to obey those who have the right to be obeyed.
