Only a powerful authority can keep at bay the permanent and always looming threat of anarchy.

This largely failed due to opposition from powerful local authorities and local producers.

But clearly a powerful municipal authority protects it from most of the usual 20th-century intrusions.

Now the statute stands as one of the most powerful authorities with which state and federal courts may protect those whose rights are deprived.

He has snapped the longest streak without a home run in his career, 88 at-bats, with powerful authority.

But the control required to run the planet today would be impossible without the powerful central authority wielded by the UN.

This sort of party would probably demand very powerful centralized authority of the state.

It is as if the wounded are being shepherded by some powerful authority.

We're all familiar with the equation of the child as the helpless victim and the doctor or adult as the powerful authority.

The commission was followed by an investigation led by a more powerful authority, the commissioners of accounts.