The passing of creative authority from Mr. Gossard and Mr. Ament to Mr. Vedder is blithely treated as an overnight, finger-snap transition, a dubious depiction at best.
If Congress votes down a resolution that would authorize a strike action, the President might take the position that (a) failure to pass a resolution of authority does not equal the affirmative passage of a resolution denying him authority, and (b) absent the latter, he still has constitutional power to undertake the mission unilaterally.
You can call in the cavalry: a head of department, the teacher next door, a cleaner who happens to be passing – any recognised figure of authority can buy you a valuable reprieve.
While critics could sit on the sidelines complaining about the bias of this news source or the sensationalism of that one, the stories we read, listened to, watched and critiqued all had to pass through the hands of authority figures with titles like "journalist" and "editor".
Among the questions that have not been resolved, administration officials said today, is whether Mr. Bremer would report directly to the White House, or whether his line of authority would pass through Gen. Tommy R. Franks, who heads the military's Central Command and is still officially the top American authority in Iraq.
He said he was first physically and sexually abused by his stepfather, a military figure who eventually passed him round to other figures of authority from 1975, when he was seven, to 1984.
Design for the ELTL had been done from March 2009 to December 2009 in large part, and then the construction was started on November 2009 in the O-arai site of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency and completed on the middle of November 2010 after passing an authority inspection by a fire department in O-arai town.
DIAMOND--Walter H. Syracuse University and its Martin J. Whitman School of Management mourn the passing of friend, alumnus, world-renowned tax authority and economist, and primary authority on foreign trade zones and international tax treaties.
McCain said the American people "should be rolling their eyes" at the whole process of passing government spending authority, saying "it contributes to the cynicism that Americans have" about the political process.
The ruling means that Weltimmo could be liable for the 10m Hungarian forint (£23,650) fine levied by the Hungarian authority over the passing of user information to debt collection agencies, which was found to infringe Hungarian data protection laws.
