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And so the government of President Hosni Mubarak appeared to lean back on its standard formula for preserving authority at Friday Prayer, relying on its security forces to keep calm on the street and government religious institutions like Al Azhar to try to appease public sentiment, in this case by lashing out at the Jews in response to Gaza.

The old communist apparatus desperately preserved all authority for the center while masterfully shoving responsibility down the throats of managers at the periphery.

The effort to convince voters that the stakes are high has been hobbled by the fact that the powers of this next Parliament remain increasingly vague as the military council has said it plans to preserve ultimate authority for at least another year.

While his calls for preserving the authority of principals and eradicating nepotism were met with applause, some principals seemed uninterested in his message.

She wrote to her daughter Elisabeth: "My principal aim is to have the honour of God before my eyes in all things and to preserve my authority, not for myself, but for the conservation of this kingdom and for the good of all your brothers".

By enacting DOMA, Congress sought to mitigate this national confusion by clarifying the definition of marriage for purposes of federal law, while preserving the authority of states to make determinations with regard to their own laws.

Steele found himself outnumbered on that appointments panel by two men, in Thomas and Beaumont, who seemed more intent on paving the way for Woodward's return to the RFU than preserving the authority of the recently appointed chief executive.

But the Senate's very recent decision to abolish the filibuster for almost all nominations shows that the majority is fully capable of preserving its authority to confirm nominees when it really wants to.

Rather than preserving its authority, it undermines it.

How can an ill executive preserve authority and reduce responsibility?

The authorities are also keen on finding better ways of preserving order than tit-for-tat.