The captain, a native of the old naval city of Sevastopol, was the absolute authority.
In matters of faith and doctrine, the fundamental principle of the Waldensian Church is the absolute authority of the Bible.
In the Catholic diocese, for instance, the bishop is the absolute authority in certain areas; a constitutional monarch in others (severely limited, for instance, in his right to discipline his diocesan clergy) and virtually powerless in others -- he cannot, for instance, visit a parish in his diocese unless the parish priest invites him to do so.
In the Catholic diocese, for instance, the bishop is the absolute authority in certain areas; a constitutional monarch in others (severely limited, for instance, in his right to discipline his diocesan clergy) and virtually powerless in others — he cannot, for instance, visit a parish in his diocese unless the parish priest invites him to do so.
In this area Joffre was the absolute authority and no civilian, not even President Poincaré or his ministers, could enter it without his permission.
The theory, that an eminent Shiite cleric can be the absolute legal authority, is the foundation of Iran's present political system.
The usage of juvenile soldiers was not rare in World War I; children of that time were under the absolute authority of adults and generally were not shielded against exploitation.
The only reason to oppose it, he maintained, "would be to declare the absolute authority of the past" — to declare that "everything old is sacred and untouchable and no place at all exists for our time".
Like all institutions here, it is subject to the absolute authority of the monarchy.
I am not arguing the absolute authority of scientific conclusions in democratic debates.
