Sentences with phrase «accepted authority on the subject»

«The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the internationally accepted authority on the subject, concludes that the climate system has warmed dramatically since the 1950s, and that scientists are 95 percent to 100 percent sure human influence has been the dominant cause.

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We also commonly speak of someone being an authority on a certain subject, meaning that he or she is recognized as an accepted source of expert opinion in that area.

By submitting your booking, you represent to us that you have the authority to make the booking on behalf of your party and that you accept, on behalf of you and / or your party, that the booking is subject to these Terms and Conditions.

In formulating the obligation in that way, the court took the view that, although it may in principle be open to the decision - maker to accept confidential information and then decide to disclose the information in breach of the confidentiality obligations to which it was subject, in reality that was not an option available to a responsible public authority, both because it would be ethically repugnant to such a body, and because it was highly likely that such conduct would have a material adverse effect on its ability to obtain confidential information in the future: [59].

And this is what I understand to be the meaning of our lawyers, when they say that these civil corporations are liable to no visitation; that is, that the law having by immemorial usage appointed them to be visited and inspected by the king their founder, in his majesty's court of king's bench, according to the rules of the common law, they ought not to be visited elsewhere, or by any other authority.53 And this is so strictly true, that though the king by his letters patent had subjected the college of physicians to the visitation of four very respectable persons, the lord chancellor, the two chief justices, and the chief baron; though the college had accepted this carter with all possible marks of acquiescence, and had acted under it for near a century; yet, in 1753, the authority of this provision coming in dispute, on an appeal preferred to these supposed visitors, they directed the legality of their own appointment to be argued: and, as this college was a mere civil, and not an eleemosynary foundation, they at length determined, upon several days solemn debate, that they had no jurisdiction as visitors; and remitted the appellant (if aggrieved) to his regular remedy in his majesty's court of king's bench.