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The revision establishes the future direction of Japan’s military posture by delegating greater authority to the commanders of the Self-Defense Forces to initiate defensive actions against immediate threats.
Despite passage in July of the 18th amendment to the Pakistani constitution, which restored it to the form in which it was promulgated in 1973, political and executive authority remains in the hands of President Asif Ali Zardari.
The changes are supposed to make the executive branch accountable to the elected parliament, expand the prime minister’s authority, devolve more power to the provinces, and ensure independence to the judiciary.
For example, some tax systems are more corruption-resistant than others, because they curtail the discretionary authority of tax officials.
With little authority to initiate legislation, the Parliament, too, will have no choice but to pivot toward oversight.
“Russian citizens” were in Syria, it said, “of their own free will and for different reasons,” and the “ministry does not have the authority to assess the validity and legality of their decisions.”
On the institutional level, pluralism means that established religions can no longer take for granted that a particular population will supinely submit to its authority.
Instead, people must be persuaded to accept such authority, giving rise to something like a religious market.
This is the untold secret of women’s struggle in the workplace: if you ask any senior woman off the record, she is likely to agree that most of her male colleagues have no problem with women’s authority, but that some simply cannot abide it, no matter how it is wielded.
Instead, we should start to analyze why most men have evolved to the point that they accept women’s authority, while others – like whoever commissioned that front-page annihilation of Abramson at a time when smearing her served no professional purpose – still cannot.
Deng Xiaoping was the last Chinese leader to possess undisputed authority to decide on public policy.
Such lessons are most obviously relevant to the current competition to succeed Ben Bernanke as Chair of the US Federal Reserve Board, the world’s most powerful monetary authority.
In fact, even as the European Parliament has gained more authority, voter turnout in European elections has steadily decreased since 1979, reaching a low of 42.5% in 2014.
It is not an international organization, and it has no legal authority to speak for the world or to establish rules, norms, or standards for any state except its own members – that China is not a member demonstrates clearly the limits of its reach.
Decentralized local governments, which have little authority over remote clinics, cannot supervise their activities.
Consequently Brussels is no government to be, but a regulatory authority – and this often to the benefit of European consumers.
This authority, the technocrats claim, in turn is part of a system of national and supra-national checks and balances which, while not resembling a national democracy, would reliably prevent despotism from taking root in Brussels.
The G-20’s decisions have become increasingly informal, while rule-making authority has been outsourced to private regulatory bodies, such as the Basel Committee and the International Accounting Standards Board.
The United States Congress is about to finalize a bill that will grant resolution authority over major US financial institutions to a newly formed systemic council.
To minimize the risk of an unruly collapse, it is necessary to approve an international resolution mechanism with authority over all major international financial institutions.
The first problem to resolve in approving this mechanism is who should have this authority.
In the absence of an international fiscal authority, the IMF is the organization that comes closest to being one.
In the case of the US resolution authority, this has been a very controversial issue.
Only a government that is sufficiently powerful, in terms of legal authority and solvency, can do so.
Violence and murder of women are on the increase, perpetrated by men who feel that these alternatives pose a threat to their authority.
Those who advocate leaving globalization exclusively in the hands of the private sector may resent the idea of vesting tax-raising authority in a global agency.
The reason is simple: US law can create a resolution authority that works only within national boundaries.
Traditional doctrines and supernaturalism remain vigorous, but the structures of religious authority are changing.
As a result, in a modernizing environment, doctors and engineers can find themselves in positions of religious authority, leading a Koran study group and interpreting scripture.
When a stubborn teenager went up against the mighty lottery authority with its army of auditors and inspectors and initial alibis, this individual, not the system, was the clear winner of the public's admiration.
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