The institutionalization of a socially conservative norm or standard functions to legitimize what can be said, who has the authority to speak and be heard, and what is authorized as true or as THE truth.
Yet his authority to speak for the insurgents remains unclear.
History has established their authority to speak on the subject.
I was just a dean, I have no authority to speak for the university".
The officer requested anonymity because he did not have the authority to speak to reporters.
"I had no authority to speak of that, so I started over".
Has going to prison given them a certain moral authority to speak now? "Of course!
Wright, the troubling newcomer, had already challenged her authority to speak for their race.
I don't think he has any authority to speak or pass judgment on Kenneth, certainly," Chung said.
Reporters rarely doubted that Mr. Gibbs had the ear of the president and the authority to speak for him.
Mara, who has been with the Giants since he was a child, has the authority to speak.
