In the corporate world, those who witnessed such malfeasance might alert a higher authority.
Frustrated, Jackson, who decommissions oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico, sought help from a higher authority.
America's constitution brooks no higher authority over its citizens, and an amendment to change that would probably fail.
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And he really doesn't appreciate having to answer to a higher authority.
In much of Europe people look to the EU as a higher authority able to rescue them from dysfunctional local rulers, notes one ambassador.
The White House didn't provide details concerning whether the SBA's current administrator, Karen Mills, would be granted a higher authority or additional responsibilities as a result of her elevated position.
Consequently, the present conflict should properly be viewed by the West as one between diverging republics, not between republics on the one hand and a higher authority at the national level that can claim to represent all of Yugoslavia.
The school nurse was Lucy's crucial advocate, never needing to be convinced of the seriousness of Davis's asthma, confident enough in her own judgment to intervene at the moment he needed it, rather than allowing him to suffer while she tried to find Lucy or fretfully sought out approval from some higher medical authority.
Monmouthshire is the only authority to have a higher overall rate of sick leave with 13 days lost per employee on average.
Dar al-Fatwa, Lebanon's top Sunni authority, and the Higher Shi'a Islamic Council both said that they opposed the draft on the basis that Sharia law protected the status of women, and should remain the basis for governing legal issues related to Muslim families.
But they're probably right that the field of available candidates is tiny, not least because - since the great crash of 2007-8 - the Financial Services Authority has set the bar much higher in respect of the qualifications and experience required of a chief executive of a big international bank (the FSA's approval is required for any senior bank appointment).
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) said the new higher limit would cover the "vast majority" of UK savers.
The CSCSE is the sole national authority to evaluate foreign academic qualifications of higher education for official recognition in China.
If one looks at the IUCN Red List, the global authority on threatened species, the concentrations are much higher, with 83% of the most threatened birds, 82% of the most threatened mammals, and 90% of the most threatened amphibians concentrated in the Hotspots.
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The local authority said the public had been open to the idea of higher car park fees during consultation on the council's budget.
The Environmental Protection Agency used its authority to regulate carbon dioxide as a source of pollution and set higher standards for power plants.
Remarkably, this estimate is 40 to 60% higher than the 3.1 million ton reduction the California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) originally claimed in 2008 for the entire plan, including extensions to Sacramento and San Diego.
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"It sticks in the craw" of farmers, Mr. Gertson said, that the authority will continue to release water to golf courses and other recreational customers that pay higher rates for a guaranteed water supply.
The National Transportation Safety Board report concluded that while Buckalew had asked air traffic controllers to fly higher and out of the icing conditions, he may have been reluctant to exercise his own authority to do so, or may have been unaware of the severity of the conditions.
The information local authority officials seek from the DVLA is often available from other sources, but at a higher cost.
In nearby Pakistan, however, a spokesman for the National Disaster Management Authority, which is tasked with coordinating emergency relief, said the death toll was much higher, at 39 so far.
Even higher (though arguably not as dramatic) is the view from the windows of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority Information Centre on the 55th floor of Two International Finance Centre.
Lynn's defense team argued that their client repeatedly told higher-ups about the alleged abuse and, under strict orders from the late Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, had no authority to remove priests from the ministry.
We will eventually see a resulting decline in the quality of what has been the best higher-education system in the world, as the people capable of designing a college curriculum and staffing it lose authority over the areas of their professional expertise.
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