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verbal authority
noun
Right or permission authorized verbally rather than in writing.
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A sampling from the controlling verbal authority of Campaign 2000 follows.
In "Precious," teachers and caseworkers prevail with verbal authority, but what Daniels doesn't show is that their authority is backed up with arms which they themselves don't wield.
The written authority was only given in 1944 when Nichols was about to sign a contract with Du Pont, and it was found that Nichols original authority to sign project contracts from Colonel Marshall was based on a verbal authority from Styer, and Nichols only had the low delegated authority of a divisional engineer.
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A Son With Asperger's With regard to Asperger's, it's the idea of my son not always being seemingly able or unable to understand the consequences of his actions, in this case driving, and also when I was teaching him: the verbal nonsense, anti-authority; or rather not able to understand authority, or the appropriate language to use.
Although the hospital does not have an ethics committee, in addition to a written permission from hospital authorities, verbal consent was obtained from all participants.
But it's telling that even in as progressive a place as Harvard, where students have been exposed to sharp thinking about sexism and inequality, some men feel entitled to assert verbal, if not physical, authority over women's bodies.
Date rape, also called acquaintance rape, a term used largely in industrialized countries to describe the forcing or coercing of a victim into unwanted sexual activity by a friend, romantic suitor, or peer through violence, verbal pressure, misuse of authority, use of incapacitating substances, or threat of violence.
The permission to carry out this study was obtained from district medical authority and verbal consent was obtained from the interviewees.
It is wrong to expect a child to defend themselves from verbal abuse by an adult authority figure.
Last year, for example, the authorities issued similar verbal orders against women smoking water pipes, but the ban was not enforced.
In another survey -- involving 1,113 deportees interviewed in Mexico between 2010 and 2012 -- 11percentt reported physical abuse by U.S. authorities, 23percentt reported verbal abuse, and 39percentt said their valuables had been confiscated and not returned, including identification cards, money and cell phones.
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