Within the state alone there is legislative authority, executive authority, judicial authority, and administrative authority; these different kinds of authority can have distinct sub-branches of authority.
EU heads of state meet to agree on future funds for Athens on June 24, so expect wrangling between the various branches of EU authority and a lot of confusion until then when the hard decision has to be made.
Apart from criminal accountability, retroactive immunity undermines the separation of powers by stripping the judicial branch of its authority to determine exactly what the National Security Agency and telecommunication companies have done -- the authority to find facts.
In August, New York City Transit, the branch of the authority that runs the subway system, began posting a list of broken elevators and escalators on its Web site, mta.info.
A reference to the need for an agreement between the two branches of the budgetary authority on the financing of the Office, as required by the IIA, should be inserted in the recital.
In the next weeks, we are going to finalise the deal and to get it approved by both branches of the budgetary authority", said the lead rapporteur (Commission section of the EU budget 2019) Daniele Viotti (S&D, IT).
As the various branches of government overstep their authority, it is ultimately up to the people to hold them in check.
In January, the provisional government essentially collapsed; despite a lack of authority for any branch of government to interfere with other branches, the legislature impeached Governor Henry Smith, who in turn disbanded the legislature.
This division of authority between two branches of government puts the head of a military service in an untenable position.
Mr. Garber has sought to cast the suit as a historic and decisive confrontation in which the courts would clarify the sometimes blurry lines of authority between the branches of government.
Similar problems were seen during the 1918-19 pandemic when, as Stern and colleagues report, "ill-defined lines of authority among governmental branches contributed to the eruption of interagency conflict in U.S. cities... [and] confusion about authority and jurisdiction helped lead to distrust in health officials and political leaders".
