Yet it is nothing short of terrifying to recognise that Clay, on his own authority, gave very serious consideration to using an armoured column backed up by support from the air to break the blockade.
Baduel also criticized Chavez's direct contact with the FARC during the hostage crisis, because the Venezuelan President tried to act on his own by bypassing the authority of the Colombian president.
Lord Cranborne had put his own authority on the line in the negotiations, which included face-to-face meetings between him and the prime minister.
The founder and spiritual mentor of the movement, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, seems at last to have severed his own psychological dependency on the charismatic Mr Deri, and reasserted his authority.
If the state can convince the court that Erickson lacked the authority to deal on his own, so much the better for its case.
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Library of Congress constitutional expert Louis Fisher said that it's only in the past half century that the notion has caught on that a president can go to war on his own, since Congress has the constitutional authority to declare war.
Once, Mr. Giuliani made his own disparaging comparison, saying the Port Authority's reports on snow plowing at the airport resembled those issued by the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union, known as TASS, the former Soviet news agency.
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He did admit that he had carried out his own research into cot death in infants - a subject on which he was a world authority - without seeking the coroner's permission, but says very little of this was carried out on children's bodies.
Why would anyone willingly submit to the authority of a government if it delivered no more than the citizen could get on his own?
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This is partly due to a desire get their own back on Mr Yeltsin, who has humiliated the opposition leaders time and again with his use of presidential authority and the pork barrel.
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