Sentence examples for practical authority from inspiring English sources

Am I alone in worrying about the undermining of the moral, legal and practical authority of the United Nations?

After three necessarily tumultuous and transformative years, this is a time for consolidation, for discipline and for repairing America's moral and practical authority.

It is more a matter of finding a form for an agreement that is acceptable to all sides, giving the American military the practical authority it needs to function in combat while letting the Iraqis say they are not locked into a lengthy agreement.

And there are weaker forms of practical authority.

The challenge will be how much practical authority will come with the role.

The control involved in practical authority is, however, of a specific sort: it is constitutive control.

According to Raz, practical authorities mediate between subjects and the ultimate reasons for which they should act.

The battle with the governor continued until 1941, when the legislature rescinded the Executive Reorganization Act and replaced it with the State Administration Act, which placed most of the government under the control of elected commissioners and reduced the governor's practical executive authority to commander of the militia and the executor of legislation.

In the unlikely event that the pope ever invited me for tea, we'd probably have stories to swap about the practical limits of authority.

Could Mr. Sarkozy and France conceivably have the authority, practical leverage and international support to start a process that would try to turn the dollar into a co-equal player in a basket of reserve currencies with those, let's say, of China, Russia, India and the euro zone countries?

He said, in testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee in June 1994, I am just saying that we need to be honest about the fact that we are transferring from the United States at a practical level significant authority to a new organization.