Barthes argued that the latter's authority was fundamentally undermined by modern fiction.
This Petrograd Soviet stood as a "second government" opposite the Provisional Government and often challenged the latter's authority.
Campbell distinguished sharply between Old and New Covenants (Testaments), limiting to the latter any authority for "the original faith and order" of the church.
Mr Chirac gave the task of reshaping the law to parliament, not to the prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, severely weakening the latter's authority.
In Anglo-American legal systems, mandamus is used by courts of superior jurisdiction to compel the performance of a specific act refused by a lower court, such as the hearing of a case falling within the latter's authority.
The southern coastal towns, on the other hand, acknowledged the overlordship of the sultan of Zanzibar, although the latter's authority was slight in comparison with that exercised locally by the Geledi Somali.
In the latter, the authority that is conscripted to "command" us on the religious side is God, while on the secular side it is the human, with her claim to reason, her proclivity to emotion, and her capacity for compassion.
But the latter's authority was at once contested by soviets, or "councils of workers' and soldiers' deputies," who claimed to represent the masses of the people and so to be the rightful conductors of the revolution.
Instead of challenging the latter's authority, the Servant willingly relinquishes his own autonomy, opting for an attitude of devotion and servitude.
The latter's authority was also recognized by the Saxons and the Székelys.
