House Rules and Precedents: the official documents that spell out the process by which legislation is considered by the House and its committees; as well as specifying the authority of the officers and committees of the House.

Before long, they were finding it increasingly difficult to think of the West as an enemy, and as the old order crumbled so did the authority of the officers and the ideology they were supposed to defend.

To him, the little ginger-quiffed man was suddenly all the authority of all the non-commissioned officers in the whole of the Royal Air Force, terrifying, awesome, vulgar and noisy, and possessed of that biggest of all big sticks superiority in rank.

In England, the authority of the thirteen officers of arms in ordinary who form the corporation of the Kings, Heralds, and Pursuivants of Arms extends throughout the Commonwealth, with the exception of Scotland, Canada and South Africa.

Ariennye alone knew what was out there, or what would happen to any who tried to see without the authority of the two officers who now stalked past her with blasters drawn.

He resented bitterly the authority of the officers.

What makes congregationalism unique is its system of checks and balances, which constrains the authority of the minister, the lay officers, and the members.

In 1866 the "Newark Conference Camp Meeting Association of Methodists", under the authority of the officers of the Newark Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, operated several annual Camp Meetings at Lake Speedwell near Morristown, NJ.

Fewer women than men achieved high-ranking positions in mixed-gender units; furthermore, male officers often undermined the authority of the few female officers.