Sentence examples for have total authority from inspiring English sources

Peters will "have total authority with no outside interference to run the basketball program," the athletic director, Bob Goin, said in a statement yesterday.

"But if Sather is going to come to New York," the first N.H.L. official said, "he's going to have to have total authority to do whatever he wants, whenever he wants".

"What this decision is saying, is that the American people don't have total authority over who lives in this country," said Mark S. Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, which urges tougher enforcement of immigration laws.

Captains had total authority during battle, when debate and disagreement were likely to be both inefficient and dangerous.

Instead, he pointedly said that "the Justice Department has total authority" on deciding "who gets prosecuted for what".

When Nixon came to China in 1972, and when Deng Xiaoping visited the United States in 1979, the leader of the Communist Party had total authority to shape perception of the event.

Who has total authority over the management of the Internet backbone?

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Early modern Scotland was a patriarchal society, in which men had total authority over women.

Early modern Scotland was a theoretically patriarchal society, in which men had total authority over women, but how this worked is practice is difficult to discern.

Respondents related two traditional cultural beliefs in particular to IPV: firstly the belief that a woman is her husband's property, especially if he has paid dowry; and secondly the belief that the man has total authority in the home and his decisions and actions are not to be questioned by his partner.