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someone with the power to settle matters at will
she was the final arbiter on all matters of fashion
How To Use supreme authority In A Sentence
- She empowered him to tell them, that whatever blame she might throw on Mary's conduct, any opposition to their sovereign was totally unjustifiable, and incompatible with all order and good government: that it belonged not to them to reform, much less to punish, the maleadministration of their prince; and the only arms which subjects could in any case lawfully employ against the supreme authority, were entreaties, counsels, and representations: that if these expedients failed, they were next to appeal by their prayers to The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.
- The present constitution gives supreme authority to the presidency.
- The present constitution gives supreme authority to the presidency.
- The army followed the Military Code, which allowed it a direct path of communication to the president as the supreme authority of the armed forces.
- The concept of sovereignty - that national governments exercise supreme authority within their own borders - is the bedrock of global order.
- He is head over all, in temporal and spiritual matters, and all business and lawsuits are settled by him, as the supreme authority. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Road To Science Fiction 1 - James Gunn
- Those political philosophies and religions that vest supreme authority in the individual are far more difficult to organize than those that can evoke some higher power.
- Although still nominally subject to the eastern empire, Odoacer as a result became the supreme authority in Italy.
- You, therefore, are our supreme authority, and yet you are unaccountable to us.
- Any man who will honestly tell me differently, that he deserves a place in primacy in the marriage and supreme authority and sexual rights are his by dint of station ought to read Matthew 23: 1-12 where Jesus speaks to the Pharisees. Can you love God and feminism? - Feministing