Policemen have authority to arrest lawbreakers.

警察有权逮捕犯法者。

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The Mamos have authority over people.

长老们对人们享有权威。

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Every country has cops. Cops have authority.

每个国家都有警察，警察有权威。

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He says there should have been an election to re-establish legitimate authority, which was overthrown during the first Soviet occupation in 1940.

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It was something like a central bank but it was different essentially in that the National Banks really didn't have authority to run monetary policy.

它像是个中央银行,但是在本质上不同,因为国家银行真的,没有什么权力运行货币政策。

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The modern state, as we have come to understand it, is based upon the separation of civil society from governing authority.

我们所了解的现代国家，是根据,区隔公民社会与统治当局的角度来看。

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The GAO does not have authority to determine the constitutionality of duly enacted legislation.

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Since Watson did not have authority, he made use of what he did have: publicity.

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If the FDA doesn't have authority, Congress can intervene and pass legislation controlling reproductive technologies.

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