This is also the case in judgments relating to the exercise of parental authority over the children of both spouses.

It is sometimes used by a parent to his child, when, in the exercise of parental authority, he forbids it to perform a particular action.

It is the irregular exercise of parental authority that first injures the mind, and to these irregularities girls are more subject than boys.

She plainly could not dream that Edward Harris in his nefarious exercise of parental authority had acted upon any hint from me.

Subject to the working party's discussions, the draft convention provides that the competent authorities shall rule on the exercise of parental authority in conformity with the Hague Convention of 1980 on the civil aspects of international child abduction.

Article 377-1, added by the law, ensures that "delegation may provide, for the needs of education of a child, that the father and mother, or one of them, shall share all or part of the exercise of parental authority with the third person delegatee".

I did not want to tell him that I knew of his praying, did not want to force the issue, because I knew that in reaction to a too heavy-handed exercise of parental authority, he might cling even longer to his irrational dream of life everlasting.