While evidence-based medicine appears to question the authority of individual physicians, it works instead to reinforce that authority through its regulation.
Over the three serials, this authority is tested and undermined ... Despite this, the narrative structure of all three serials works to reinforce the authority invested in Quatermass and in science.
The memo is consistent with the steps Mr. Xi has taken to reinforce party authority, which atrophied as China shifted toward capitalism.
De Gaulle's great influence and the pressures of unstable political conditions tended to reinforce the authority of the presidency at the expense of the rest of the government.
Mr. Allard said the changes would "reinforce the authority of state legislatures to determine benefits issues related to civil unions or domestic partnerships".
The agreement would reinforce the authority of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which was created in 1978 to issue special warrants for spying but was sidestepped by the administration.
Violence, even directed at targets such as schools, also serves to reinforce disintegrating authority over communities in the enclaves where the militants are based.
Amr Moussa, for example, has no natural power base and would therefore probably seek to reinforce the authority of the presidency – against the trend of revolutionary demands.
Moreover, this political leadership was not clearly separated from religious leadership, and, to the end of the Umayyad regime, the caliphs sometimes preached in the mosque, using the sermon to reinforce their authority.
To ensure that political agents and maliks have the necessary muscle to reinforce their authority to impose law and order, the government is bolstering the numbers and capacity of tribal levies, the Frontier Constabulary and the Frontier Corps.
This view was echoed by the official Iranian news service when it reported on the unveiling of the new factory by saying, "The use of nuclear technology would reinforce the authority of Iran's system".
