Sentence examples for authority to represent from inspiring English sources
The crucial point is whether or not in the earlier litigation the representative of the United States had authority to represent its interests in a final adjudication of the issue in controversy.
Both of these points require critical engagement, particularly the latter, as being a representative is not the same as having the authority to represent.
"With a title like that, he has the authority to represent the President's views.
A small group of Seminole leaders negotiated a removal agreement in 1832, but a majority of the tribe protested that the signatories had no authority to represent them.
BA said the result of the ballot indicated the union had "lost the moral authority to represent the views of our cabin crew".
She adds: "I'm very cautious about appropriating or representing a view I don't have legitimate authority to represent, because I don't want to take the place of someone who could do that better.
The Senior Man meets regularly with college and university authorities to represent the JCR.
For each outcome measure, table 4 shows the number of patients' ratings needed to achieve the 0.7 and 0.8 reliability thresholds, judged by authorities to represent minimum acceptable thresholds in postgraduate assessment settings.
The 14th Dalai Lama, following his defection in 1959 out of opposition to the reform measure aimed to abolish serfdom that enslaved the local population, has no authority whatsoever to represent the people of Tibet, nor has he the right to decide the future and destiny of Tibet.
This week a coalition of local authorities, claiming to represent 2 million London residents, launched a new campaign against the third runway at Heathrow, which will entail the demolition of 700 homes next to the M4.
In his view, it's an umbrella label, "a way to define a range of phenomena involving young people that, to the prevailing adult authorities, seemed to represent a falling short, a delinquency, in youthful behavior.
