It does not carry the authority to initiate any corrective action.
"Those things in the short run have gotten a little harder because it does not carry political authority".
Mr. Williams, on NBC, was smooth, professional and dispassionate, but he still does not carry the authority that Tom Brokaw brings.
Though Mr. Rajan's current post does not carry any executive authority, his return to India has attracted attention because many policy analysts consider him to be the leading candidate to take over the top job at India's central bank, the Reserve Bank of India, next year when the current governor, Duvvuri Subbarao, retires.
The vice chairman's job does not carry much formal operational authority inside the company.
Supervision is also important, but it does not carry the weight or authority of a managerial role.
Unlike his late father, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, Uhuru does not carry a fly-whisk as a mark of authority.
These women were introduced into a male-dominated BBC because it was thought their charms would boost wartime morale, despite the belief that female announcers did not carry the same authority as their male counterparts.
Although Boehner was well-liked on a personal level by most of Congress, he did not carry as much authority as one would expect from a Speaker, and struggled to keep members of his party happy.
If they become incompetent with no record of their wishes then decision making falls to relatives, and that complicates matters greatly because surrogates do not carry the same weight of authority.
The authorities also claim security forces did not carry lethal weapons or fire a shot.
