I fear that I will not be listened to, because no longer are there universal authorities.

There is no universal authority defining the terminology of sport bikes or any other motorcycle classes.

Babalú-Ayé transcends various domains, often separated in other contexts, and thus asserts a near universal authority.

There is no single "Anglican Church" with universal authority, because each national or regional church has full autonomy.

These decrees and letters portray even the early popes as claiming absolute and universal authority.

Allegiance to the tribal sunnah had been partially replaced by submission to a new universal authority and the sense of brotherhood among Muslims.

"This is someone who approaches God himself in his heavenly throne room and is given universal authority and dominion.

In the United States the DSM serves as a universal authority for the diagnosis of psychiatric disorders.

The square, axial plan represents the four corners of the world and symbolizes, in architectural terms, the universal authority and sovereignty of the Sultan.

Edwards taught that a type of Millennium would occur "1260 years after A.D. 606 when Rome was recognized as having universal authority."

The Eastern Roman (Byzantine) imperial church headed by Constantinople continued to assert its universal authority.

And, indeed, it is difficult, if possible, to draw a line of distinction between the universal authority of Parliament over the colonies, and no authority at all.

Our group, therefore, warmly welcomes the fact that an international court has now been set up with a more universal authority which complements national courts where they fall short.

In common with many of his Protestant contemporaries, Adams criticized the claims to universal authority made by the Roman Catholic Church.

The universal authority of Mother Church was the linchpin not simply of the world in which he lived, but of God's very plan for Man's salvation.

He made a distinction between 'established social morality'(the accumulation of moral norms in a particular society) and 'community ethics'(a universal authority that governs social moral philosophy).

The Sanhedrin is traditionally viewed as the last institution which commanded universal authority among the Jewish people in the long chain of tradition from Moses until the present day.

Another tool Innocent III used to attempt to gain universal authority and have more involvement in Imperial elections was letters he wrote to power brokers in the region.

There is no single church with universal authority within the Anglican Communion; different types of Marian devotions are practiced by various groups of Anglicans with varying degrees of emphasis.

One of the most direct public notices of the universal authority of the pope came in Innocent III's "Papal Decree on the choice of a German King, 1201".

In return for King John's submission to his papal and universal authority, Innocent III declared Magna Carta annulled, though many English Barons did not accept this action.

Perhaps no American writer will ever again begin a book, as Croly did, by saying, "The faith of Americans in their own country is religious, if not in its intensity, at any rate in its almost absolute and universal authority."

"A late signal received from Old Earth reports that a number of the insurgent factions are agitating for the appointment of William as World's Regent, with universal authority and strong-man powers to deal with the present emergency.

Rabbi Isserles' HaMapah was "considered to be an interpretation and supplement to Karo's work, while also challenging its claim to universal authority by introducing Ashkenazic traditions and customs that differed from the Sephardic ones.

Asked about this, Bishop Dabrowski the Primate's counselor, smiled and said, "The Pope, speaking with universal authority, inspires with his vision, while the Primate has to pull us back and restrain us from unrealistic aspirations."