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• n  the power or right to give orders or make decisions
  he has the authority to issue warrants
• n  (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others
• n  an expert whose views are taken as definitive
  he is an authority on corporate law
• n  freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities
  she spoke with authority
• n  an administrative unit of government
• n  official permission or approval
  authority for the program was renewed several times
• n  an authoritative written work
  this book is the final authority on the life of Milton

• His cocky contempt for authority led him to question conventional wisdom.
• The authority he has as Commander in Chief is not his to transfer.
• Or the predecessor to the convening 12 authority.

• authorization
• authorisation
• potency
• dominance
• say-so
• assurance
• self-assurance
• confidence
• self-confidence
• sureness
• agency
• federal agency
• government agency
• bureau
• office
• sanction

News & Articles

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• Port Authority asked to consider relocating
  EAST LIVERPOOL - The Columbiana County Port Authority is being asked to relocate to Lisbon and become part of a new office building county commissioners want to construct on the site where the former welfare office currently stands.
  June 18, 2013 - The East Liverpool Review
• Port Authority retirees get free tolls and parking -- for life, judge rules
  Port Authority retirees get to keep the lifetime perk of free tolls and parking, a Manhattan Supreme Court judge has ruled. The Port Authority sued in Manhattan Supreme Court last year after an arbitrator ruled that about a 100 former lieutenants should receive the benefits, equivalent to a $2,000...
  June 17, 2013 - New York Post
• Virginia Port Authority Selects Boyden to Search for New CEO
  The Virginia Port Authority has announced that Boyden has been retained to partner in selecting its new CEO. Rodney W. Oliver has been serving as VPA’s Interim Executive Director following the resignation of Jerry A.
  June 17, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Benjamin Netanyahu in The Age
  I have been willing to meet the Palestinian [Authority] President [Mahmoud Abbas] from the first day of this government,he said at a cabinet meeting before setting off for the US. "The time has come for him to be prepared to meet with us,...
• Barack Obama in Boston Globe
  Violence is a dead end,Obama said. "It is a sign of neither courage nor power to shoot rockets at sleeping children, or to blow up old women on a bus. That is not how moral authority is claimed; that is how it is surrendered."
• Alan Rosenberg in Reuters
  Let me assure you that no authorities of my church, or of any other church for that matter, will ever exert influence on presidential decisions. Their authority is theirs, within the province of church affairs, and it ends where the affairs of the... Mitt Romney http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHsbJvd1A8Hj2N-SfDDingX9k3-RA Reuters http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN0455219020071206&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGaIYCPydR71hjwMfNU6QajpUVk5g Dec 5, 2007 6815 9943 authorization We have taken no steps to initiate a strike authorization vote," SAG President Alan Rosenberg said in a statement on Sunday. "Any talk about a strike or a management lockout at this point is simply a distraction."