Over time, good managers find they must earn their subordinates' respect and trust in order to exercise significant authority.
随着时间的推移，好经理发现，为了行使重要的职权，就必须要赢得下属的尊敬和信任。
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He's playing up his martyrology kind of authority so that he can exercise a bit of authority even over these other churches that he's writing too.
所以他就鼓吹自己的殉道者权威，这样他的权威就能遍及到，那些他写信去的教堂。
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How is this determined? And Hobbes makes clear that the sovereign is not invested with the authority to exercise a kind of absolute control over everything that people do.