Sentence examples for has great authority from inspiring English sources

Mr. Safire has great authority.

(The powers of the Czech Presidency are based largely on the postwar West German model; the President is secondary to the Prime Minister in domestic affairs but has great authority in making appointments and in foreign policy).

The National Congress in theory has great authority to check the administrative activities of the president, but only during the period 1925 31, when several cabinet ministers appointed by the president were forced to resign through censure, was such authority effective.

Indeed, he is on solid legal ground and has great authority and power to do so.

All together this is a very relevant outbound link as it relates 100% to the page content and has great authority.

Yet these same women face huge difficulties in accessing reliable methods of contraception, in a region where the Catholic Church, a steady opponent of reliable contraception, has great authority.

He said: "Prime Minister Cameron has renewed, fresh legitimacy, internally he has greater authority to make the case for Europe".

The WTO has greater authority than GATT to resolve trade disputes, but has to operate on consensus, which means that any of the 142 member countries can block agreement.

The logical next step is for Courroye to kick the whole affair upstairs to a juge d'instruction, who has greater authority to reach a finding, send a case to trial, or even dismiss it.

The Swiss government now has greater authority to confiscate stolen assets from bank accounts and return them to their country of origin.

In Africa where kinship systems create the social order and tradition has greater authority than law, same sex relations are condemned "because they are not our tradition".