But if sovereignty is a matter of authority, it is not a matter of mere authority, but of supreme authority.
He displayed the calm, matter-of-fact authority of an RAF officer, which he had been for six years, combined with eloquence – and a deeply thoughtful approach to the paramount issues of the day, such as the activities of Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof.
In that vein, she believes that a president usually deserves the benefit of the doubt from Congress on matters of executive authority.
Justices Souter and Ginsburg said that in their view, Mr. Hamdi's detention lacked a legal basis as a matter of statutory authority.
This development contributed to contemporary understandings of the proper relationship between church and state and even to understandings of the church itself; it also led to controversy between later emperors and popes over the matter of universal authority in Christendom.
Later generations of Protestant thinkers sometimes resorted to scholastic philosophical definitions similar to those of medieval theologians; in such definitions justification became the material (or substantive) principle of the Reformation, while the matter of scriptural authority became the equally important formal (or structural) principle.
Civil liberties advocates and supporters of Mr. Kurtz say the case is a matter of the authorities' misdirecting post-Sept.
But she also has a no-nonsense authority, a matter-of-fact bluntness.
Nonetheless, the film's allusions to American politics are light enough that its generic notion of revolution can draw in viewers anywhere, can be yoked to any outrage in destruction and fear in hiding, or, for that matter, to any resentment of authority whatsoever: President Snow may be, simply, the Man, and Katniss the icon of youth in revolt.
This gave Shaw an opportunity to use his dialectical brilliance to undermine the presumed authority of doctors over matters of life and death – an authority that he aggressively attacked in his preface to The Doctor's Dilemma and agreeably ridiculed in the play itself.
