The political authority of these presidents really rests on the full-throated support of the faithful.
Gladstone was a leader whose impressive, long- lived political authority arose from his unique persona.
To protect political authority or preserve the public good (which often came down to protecting mainstream values).
It shows us how political authority can be justified but only by accepting that moral authority limits it.
In short, the shambolic uncertainty about the energy merger is symptomatic of a broader problem of political authority.
No political authority on earth would be able to force payment from the Kremlin short of seizing assets.
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The antiwar movement's success at securing defeat in Vietnam established its political authority.
They cannot prevent Mr Assad from having the upper hand militarily, but they are further eroding his shrinking political authority.
He worked closely with Ali Khamenei, then Iran's president and today supreme leader, and clashed with him over political authority and powers.
In effect, the U.S. government is taking sides, potentially significantly impeding the crucial devolution of communist economic and political authority away from Moscow center.
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Westminster will become but one site among many of political authority.
This President doesn't have the political authority to rein them in.
It has lost its political authority in recent years, partly because it was such a shambles under Mr Prodi's predecessor, Jacques Santer, who resigned in March.
Terrorist incidents in Iraq also dramatically increased, from 22 attacks to 198, or nine times the previous year's total - after the U.S. handover of political authority to an interim Iraqi government.
Economists said Berlusconi commanded neither sufficient political authority to push through spending cuts nor the moral high ground to squeeze more taxes out of Italians while he faced trial on various charges.
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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Contrary to the blather of the Bush team, we have not finished the war and we have yet to establish an interim Iraqi political authority that can eventually work together to govern Iraq instead of Saddam's iron fist or ours.
An unshakable sense of one's own moral authority makes it easier to rationalize wrongful actions in the interest of preserving tenuous political and cultural authority.
If you want to give the political elite the authority to tell you whether you can buy foreign-produced goods, you have opened the door to endless mischief.
But then, the advice I was giving about how that should be done and the need for the coalition to take very seriously its Geneva Convention obligations to keep order, to keep basic humanitarian services running, and to keep civil administration running, and get the UN in to create a new Iraqi political and interim authority, that was all being ignored.
Estyn said that after a period of instability "the political leadership within the authority is now more stable".
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Keith Barrow said it was not right that money paid to Unison was used in political campaigns against the authority.
The cable says they're part of an effort by Kurdish political parties to exercise authority in Kirkuk in an increasingly provocative manner.
To the extent religion continues to play a central part in American political life, patriarchal authority is abundantly clear, particularly in the Catholic Church in which men are authorities and women are subservient.
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Business owners and followers of the Small Business Authority know a political bribe when they see it.
In law, he established the principle of judicial review, giving the courts authority over the political branch.
Chavez and Morales are inventing political crises to advance their selfish political interests and expand their authority.
Friday's Security Council vote marked a new peak in the Fatah-controlled, US-sponsored Palestinian Authority's political war against Israel.
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Mr Wahid has no remaining authority political, executive or moral with which to fight back.
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