ultimate authority
collocation in Englishmeaningsofultimateandauthority
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ultimate
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈʌl.tɪ.mət/us/ˈʌl.tə.mət/
most extreme or important because either the original or final, or the best ...
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authority
noun
uk/ɔːˈθɒr.ə.ti/us/əˈθɔːr.ə.t̬i/
the moral or legal right or ability ...
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(Definition ofultimateandauthorityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The first involved questions of authority, such as who exercisedultimateauthorityand whether any limits could be placed on this power.
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Of course, one could say that the speakers are theultimateauthorityon this question.
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Customarily,ultimateauthorityand decision-making powers over land (which was inalienable) and its use were vested in the community through the elders.
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They are the 'sovereigns' with whom theultimateauthorityto decide on the polity's affairs resides.
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As for the science of belles-lettres (adab), he is theultimateauthority.
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This mindset amongst the corporate actors thus handedultimateauthorityto the nation state.
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Here, the teacher serves as a mouthpiece for the institution, a function of his role in first voice being dictated by theultimateauthorityof the third voice.
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At the same time, it preserves theultimateauthorityof the individual's evaluative perspective because its sorting methods are ones the individual herself views as authoritative.
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Barth bracketed all political action, which is not to say that he thought unpolitically, but that he locatedultimateauthorityin divine action, not nation, class, race, or ideology.
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But there must be anultimateauthority: that is the difficulty.
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He will say that, as is the case with other police forces, theultimateauthorityrests with him.
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Any revising chamber, however legitimate it may be as a revising chamber, must recognise that theultimateauthorityrests with the primary chamber.
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As he will know, theultimateauthorityis the court.
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Everything that is said or shown on their services is said and shown on theirultimateauthority.
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It is not a question of which is theultimateauthority.
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Who is theultimateauthorityon the definition of emergency?
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At the end of the day he is theultimateauthority.
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Itsultimateauthorityrested in the body of its members.
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Here we run up against difficulties as to who is theultimateauthority.
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