She has decisive authority and a deep effect on strategy and tactics".
Local power brokers might possess wealth, honor, a reputation for piety, abundant weaponry or powerful allies, but they lacked the means or the will to convert those gifts into decisive authority.
As mentioned earlier, women perceive their husbands to be the decisive authority for consent to seek health advice and when and where to use health care services.
It contains first and foremost the idea of laws made and laid down by oneself, and, in virtue of this, laws that have decisive authority over oneself.
First, I have it on decisive authority that our Paleolithic ancestors had no paperclips.
Hierarchies were the way to go if the task was a simple one that could be led by a single decisive authority.
But they do not really grasp the important dimensions of the situation, and therefore cannot possess any decisive authority.
He lends both characters a calm, decisive moral authority.
Mr. Bouteflika was hand-picked for the presidency last year by Algeria's generals, who have held decisive political authority since shortly after Algeria's independence from France in 1962.
"When you're in power, and want to stay there, you are not free to be yourself; you are expected to live up to your role as a dominant decisive, absolute authority — and to internalize it, to drink your own Kool-Aid," said Jennifer Overbeck, a psychologist at the University of Southern California.
The essence of "Inherent Vice," in Anderson's telling, is cherchez les femmes: look beyond the headlines and the history books to see the intimate stories, the privately decisive intelligence and authority of women who were kept, by the norms of the times, largely out of public life.
