Old age and seniority alone do not command authority among the British: in fact modern life has been developing so fast that old people often appear tiresome and out of date.

在英国人当中，年长和资历本身并没有什么权威性：事实上，现代生活发展飞快，老年人常显得乏味又过时。

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Colonel Litzenberg was much senior to Lieutenant Colonel Murray, and perhaps Smith thought that was all the overall command authority needed.

里特·森伯格上校的资历要比默雷中校高的多，因此有可能史密斯认为这就足以解决所需要的指挥授权关系。

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In addition to its critical tactical mission, AEHF will also provide the survivable, assured communications to National Command Authority in all levels of conflict.

除了提供关键的战术任务外，AEHF还将为国家指挥机构在全局冲突中提供可生存、可信的通信。

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There is for Hobbes, as for Thrasymachus, no higher court of appeal than the will or the word of the sovereign, no transcendent law, no divine law, no source of authority outside sovereign command.

对霍布斯和特拉西马库斯而言，根本不存在能高过君主意愿,和言辞的上诉法院，更没有什么卓绝或是神圣的法律,以及其他权力是可以高于君主的命令的。

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We have to trust our armed forces, and our national command authority with how they are pursuing the accomplishment of this war on terrorism, and understand that it's not a 100-yard dash, but a marathon.

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He also claims all such proliferation activities ended in the 1990s, conveniently before General Musharraf set up a National Command Authority over the nuclear programme in 2002 and promised that all proliferation concerns had now been addressed.

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Officials said that they saw little need to hurry what was a sensitive and complex process because there was a de facto command authority in place, with the prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, in charge of the nuclear trigger.

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