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The British state began to gain greater statutory authority to intervene in and regulate what was previously considered purely private sexual behavior at a time when grassroots movements, from Chartists to feminists to socialists, were clamoring for enfranchisement and greater influence over the distribution of political power and economic resources.
Even before his fall, the opposition controlled most big Serbian cities, and in 2000 he lost the election that he called to shore up his authority.
With the local authority effectively issuing money for work performed, the local economy boomed.
Crime rates are falling, the public infrastructure revolutionized, corruption curtailed, and a sense of legitimate, transparent authority is being established.
Here, popular sovereignty would buttress the battered concept of national sovereignty, with the consent of the European people forming the basis of the EU’s authority.
For example, his opposition to governments’ authority to prohibit or regulate human behavior extended to licensing requirements for doctors and car drivers, as well as to anti-drug laws, which he believed operated as a subsidy to organized crime.
Those with political authority in the center of Bana were aware of Target Malaria and surprisingly hostile toward us.
But did these central banks have the legal authority to do so?
That would have painted the new regime with a veneer of democratic legitimacy, giving it greater authority.
Using Arab countries’ Shia communities, it is trying to wield control over them, with the ultimate objective of taking over Islam’s two holiest sites, Mecca and Medina, over which the Saudi monarch exercises authority as the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques.
What was remarkable about this framework was that its principal author, the major superpower of the day, accepted its authority.
Those US politicians who regard international institutions as anti-American conspiracies are continuing the harm, costing their country much of its moral authority.
Moreover, by the early 1960’s, the social psychologist Stanley Milgram had shown that ordinary Americans would go to extraordinary lengths in obeying malevolent authority.
He has lost all authority in Gaza, and has a tenuous hold over the West Bank.
The answer appears to be that it feared negative reactions from the three governments involved in the merger talks, and believed that its own authority would suffer from any public rebuff.
It was not inevitable that a German chancellor would assert so much authority over the European Union.
But I also noted that there is no reason to think that, in the absence of the legislation, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission under the Bush administration would have asserted sweeping new authority over derivatives and pointed to the legal certainty problem that career lawyers thought was important to address.
And Matviyenko is one of the 12 permanent members of Russia’s National Security Council, the supreme decision-making authority on such matters.
Still, the party’s conservative platform has hardly changed at all, suggesting that Kurz’s moves are about marketing and asserting his personal authority more than anything else.
Restoration of order and creation of legitimate authority are preconditions of economic development, and we don’t know how this is to be done.
In the United Kingdom, the government has had the legal authority to revoke naturalized Britons’ citizenship since 1918.
About two thirds of the WTO’s 164 members have declared themselves developing countries – a label that entitles them to S&D provisions, including the authority to maintain trade tariffs for a longer period of time.
Instead, Hamas has turned its attention to the West Bank, where it has no political authority.
This, in turn, could produce a repeat of the scenario that brought Hamas to power in Gaza in June 2007, when all Fatah authority in the area collapsed after the Israeli withdrawal.
International control mechanisms of sufficient authority to police global financial markets are not in place today, with not be around for some time, and will remain imperfect even then.
It would then have the moral authority to demand that other nations do the same.
People’s relationship to authority figures – doctors, politicians, religious leaders, or, indeed, journalists – is no longer slavishly deferential.
But Trump certainly could issue a declaration of withdrawal, and then litigate his authority to implement it.
The government’s failure to eradicate chronic regional tension underscores the limits of central authority in China, which was partly intentional.
The central government’s loss of authority is reflected in the number of its appeals – usually unsuccessful – that it makes to local government for compliance with limits on investment or controls on pollution.
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