First, an agent may have express actual authority, in which case there is no problem.

The authority, if it existed, must therefore have been actual authority.

I'd like the chance to present my offer to whoever has the actual authority to accept it.

It gave the clergy themselves less actual authority than any other government in the western world at the time.

The president has no actual political authority over this issue.

As such, membership in the Senate became sought after by individuals seeking prestige and social standing, rather than actual authority.

Off contract, almost any issue goes straight to a retention employee with actual authority.

Admit in public that it and no one else held the actual governmental authority.

And in some states, the secretary of state has actual wide-ranging regulatory authority over businesses as well.

The boy was still only five or six years old and held no actual authority.