What we are witnessing now is not a crisis of democracy but a crisis of authority.
But it's worth pondering how Watergate helped bring about the current crisis of authority.
But it is clear that the Islamic Republic is facing an unprecedented crisis of authority and legitimacy.
He is but a man who, through a combination of ambition, talent, character and luck, became the central figure in the left's crisis of authority.
Yet his response to the abuse crisis, which was ultimately a severe crisis of authority, and arguably the greatest test of the Church's authority since the Reformation, was insufficient.
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Speaking after the summit, Mr Hollande said Europe had been unprepared for the financial crisis but now had a "crisis management authority" which allowed for the "return of confidence and growth".
The lack of an appropriate and modern regulatory regime and resolution authority helped cause this crisis, and it will continue to constrain our capacity to address future crises until we put in place fundamental reforms.
With no agreement on an alternative, the Palestinian Authority might plunge into a crisis.
The findings of the inspection team include poor financial management such as "hand-to-mouth" budgets with the authority lurching from one financial crisis to another.
When Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated, on the East Portico of the Capitol, Taney administered the oath, and Lincoln, in his address, confronted the crisis of constitutional authority.
Neoliberals could come clean that international institutionalism is in a shambles, and that Europe, its crown jewel, cannot bank its way out of what is at heart an existential crisis of political authority.
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He accused the opposition of trying to seize power and called Saturday's election to diffuse the crisis and restore his authority.
"In the short run, to defuse the current crisis, the Palestinian Authority must act on its words of condemnation against terror, " he said.
Simon Fanshawe, author of The Done Thing, a book about modern manners, says the idea will only be embraced outside times of crisis if there are authority figures organising it.
More broadly, the West's authority has been undermined by the financial crisis.
Secretary Rice said she's going to consider funds that were already promised for Mahmoud Abbas' leadership as the president of the Palestinian Authority, and the Palestinian Authority is facing a very serious budget crisis right now.
Transferring the council's housing stock to an independent body offered the authority a way out of its current financial crisis but it was not the cause of the problem.
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Boskov has urged the nation's famously passionate supporters to be patient, but has not been shy in stamping his authority on the squad he inherited in a moment of crisis.
So we believe that the measures we have taken to lift that cloud, to avert that crisis, to ensure that we have borrowing authority through 2012, should send a reassuring message around the world.
To avoid the debt limit crisis, Congress could also extend federal borrowing authority for one year to give lawmakers time to turn those goals into law, then increase it for another year once the spending and tax changes are adopted.
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"Had the Fed exercised their authority and enforced consumer protections, they could have nipped the foreclosure crisis in the bud, " says Taylor.
Third, there is the obvious irony that the Hong Kong dollar remains pegged to the U.S. dollar and even after 30 years, including the turbulent Asian currency crisis of the late 1990s, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority is reluctant to embrace a more logical tie to the yuan.
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Enter the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, which has become the first authority to pass hard-and-fast rules for liquidity since the crisis.
Shadow chancellor George Osborne travelled from the Birmingham conference to London for a meeting about the crisis with Chancellor Alistair Darling and regulators at the Financial Services Authority.
On August 15th the Hong Kong Monetary Authority pushed interbank rates up to levels not seen since the Mexican peso crisis in 1995, to counter what it said was a speculative attack on the Hong Kong dollar.
The Palestinian Authority has been trying to form a new government, facing a terrible financial crisis.
The mortgage fraud task force I announced in my State of the Union address retains its full authority to aggressively investigate the packaging and selling of risky mortgages that led to this crisis.
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He also asserted the looting was not as bad as some television and newspaper reports have indicated and said there was no major crisis in Baghdad, the capital city, which lacks a central governing authority.
Mr Williams, who is the leader of the local Plaid Cymru Group, a member of Pembrokeshire's National Park Authority and Chairman of its Development Management Committee, has suggested that the local authority should actively pursue a policy of compulsory purchasing second homes, claiming "this crisis needs that sort of action".
And by extravagantly funded man-made climate crisis media campaigns of decidedly political origin promoting expansion of government bureaucracy and regulatory authority.
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