The unicity thesis was successful among Latin authors not only because Averroes as the commentator had become an exceptional authority of university education, but also because it was attractive philosophically: it explained the possibility of the knowledge of universals and it ensured that the intellective soul, as demanded by Aristotle (De anima III.4, 429a22 25), was not mixed with the body.
Under Indonesian laws, which are based on Dutch jurisprudence, judges have exceptional authority over witnesses and evidence.
The newly introduced state of emergency had granted the authorities exceptional new powers, including the authority to search any premises ― without judicial oversight – on very vague grounds far below the threshold required under French criminal law.
Vickery, Hadlow says, has the exceptional level of authority that she seeks in a BBC2 presenter.
As an independent producer, director, and screenwriter, she exercised an exceptional degree of authority over her films, and it shows in their coherence, consistency, and originality.
But when Vaclav Havel left Prague Castle on Sunday after 13 years as president, he took with him something quite different -- an exceptional individual moral authority.
On November 7, enraged rioters wounded 35 police officers, and the next day, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin declared a national state of emergency, granting police exceptional powers and authorizing local authorities to impose curfews.
This season's efforts, however, are off to a flying start in a program in which four exceptional early-music authorities — the ensembles Quicksilver, Tenet, and Dark Horse Consort, as well as the harpischordist Jory Vinikour — perform successive twenty-minute sets in four different rooms of the museum's new European Paintings Galleries, 1250-1800.
The procedure harks back to the start of the Algerian war in the 1950s, giving exceptional powers to authorities, including the right to set curfews, limit the movement of people, forbid mass gatherings, establish secure zones where people can be monitored and close public spaces such as theatres, bars, museums and other meeting places.
She held attention with calm authority and exceptional discipline, but principally by demonstrating multiple aspects of Indian womanhood, secular and sacred.
In exceptional circumstances a local authority can order a blanket closure of all community and voluntary-controlled schools, but not foundation or voluntary-aided schools or academies, which are more autonomous.
