With the failure of the poorly organised coup, and having secured authority from the president to restore order and security, Suharto's faction was firmly in control of the army by 2 October (he was officially appointed army commander on 14 October).
On our second excursion via Mopti, we thought we could head up through Douentza after our logistics coordinator had secured authority from the Governor of Mopti and a powerful Lieutenant in the Malian army.
He later said that politicians can only secure authority one way – by carrying a ministerial red box.
It helps that the narrative is equally fascinated by the ways in which women secure authority, and even pleasure, within these strictures, and that in the second season its bench of female characters has got even deeper — among them, a seafaring warrior princess, a butch knight, and Tyrion's prostitute girlfriend.
According to The Washington Post, "The [intelligence-gathering] effort was so extensive and costly that the CIA went to Congress in December [2010] to secure authority to reallocate tens of millions of dollars within assorted agency budgets to fund it", U.S. officials said.
That, in turn, underscored how much the Turkish state had changed under Mr. Erdogan, who through this case and others has secured civilian authority over the military.
In January, Microsoft announced its intentions to move forward in contracting with ICE after securing an Authority to Operate (ATO) from the agency.
He was remanded to secure local authority accommodation after Merseyside's youth offending team deemed him to be vulnerable.
Secure training centres, STCs, were the brainchild of the Conservative home secretary Michael Howard - a cheaper and more professional alternative to secure local authority children's homes.
Almost half of parents manage to secure local authority (LA) funding, while the rest have to pay the school fees themselves.
Coercion, on this view, is only a means that states use to secure their authority: "Coercion threats provide secondary, reinforcing motivation when the political order fails in its primary normative technique of authoritative guidance" (Green 1988: 75).
