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authority

In a political system, the capacity to take and enforce decisions. The nature, sources, and limitations of political authority have been much debated questions since the time of the ancient Greeks.

authority

In a business organization, responsibility for part of the organization exercised by a person or a group of people. People in authority have titles such as ‘manager’ or ‘supervisor’. They are in control of other people (their ‘subordinates’), of production processes, or of areas of the business.



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Of course, authority and compulsion are out of the question.
If a single member should attempt to usurp the supreme authority, he could not be supposed to have an equal authority and credit in all the confederate states.
The encouragers of the first mob never intended matters should go this length, and the people in general expressed the utter detestation of this unparalleled outrage, and I wish they could be convinced what infinite hazard there is of the most terrible consequences from such demons, when they are let loose in a government where there is not constant authority at hand sufficient to suppress them.
 
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