"Ultimate authority" refers to the highest power or final decision-making ability in a particular situation or organization. It denotes the person or entity with the ultimate power to make decisions, enforce rules, and control the outcome of a given situation.
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These people will be easy to engage in dialogue, since they will not claim
ultimate authority for themselves nor fear to admit their own limitations.
The conflict centered on whether the board or the advisory council had
ultimate authority over the school since the reform measure took effect.
He also accused Catholicism of investing
ultimate authority in one human, the pope, rather than in the divinely created Church.
They use David Bebbington's scheme of marks that identify evangelicalism: conversionism (an emphasis on the new birth as a life - changing experience), biblicism (reliance on the Bible
as ultimate authority), activism (a commitment to evangelizing), and crucicentrism (a focus on Christ's redeeming work on the cross, usually pictured as the only way of salvation).
The 43 - member Board of Governors is the seat of power at AMPAS,
with ultimate authority over corporate management, control and general policies, including Oscar rules and the invitation of new members.
Mass murderers like those named being atheists have no moral restraint or conscience to stop their atrocities as they are their
own ultimate authority.
«Although the direct source of the Review Board's authority lies in Article 9 of the [Dallas] Charter, the Board's
ultimate authority lies in church law.»
Although the Supreme Court of Georgia
retains ultimate authority to regulate the legal profession, the State Bar of Georgia's Office of the General Counsel serves as the Court's arm to investigate and prosecute claims that a lawyer has violated the ethics rules.
Decision - making authority is commonly dispersed in Latin nations, or
where ultimate authority is not as clear as in other nations.
Man is a being that yearns for a convincing truth upon which to base his life; our very nature is radically incomplete and incompletable without a credible claim to
ultimate authority amidst the body politic.
However, both Smith and Wright begin with the same critical assumption — that
ultimate authority belongs to the Word - Made - Flesh, Jesus Christ.
There is a mechanism already in place in the US constitution which has for aim to temper the supposed «excess» or «irrational enthusiasm» of the people, but without resorting to any
other ultimate authority than the authority of the people itself.
Historian David Bebbington suggests a respected paradigm for those who identify as an evangelical: a transformed life through following Jesus, faith demonstrated through missionary and social reform efforts, a regard for the Bible
as ultimate authority, and a central focus on the sacrificial death of Jesus.
There are various parties — Bitcoin miners, developers, users and platforms — that all have some authority and input as how they want Bitcoin to operate, but none
with ultimate authority.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has
ultimate authority in setting up the rules regarding equity - based crowdfunding, but the SoMoLend case should be a very clear reminder that state securities» entities may be potent as a regulatory force.
As an extension of its expertise, this team should have
the ultimate authority on content requirements as well.
Supporters of Trump's plan like the Small UAV Coalition, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, and the Academy of Model Aeronautics praised how the new drone program still designates the FAA as
the ultimate authority over drones, trumping local governments.
Though there's definitely overlap between content marketing and SEO (I'd even argue that they're two sides of the same coin), I consider the Content Marketing Institute to be
the ultimate authority on content marketing the way that Moz is the ultimate authority on SEO.
But they have
the ultimate authority on what gets done.»
The powerful Cyberspace Administration —
the ultimate authority over what is online in China — also shut down dozens of blogs and social media accounts for covering celebrity news and gossip that month.
As venture heavyweight Marc Andreesen tells Fortune, every company is looking for a «Sheryl»: someone who allows the founder to decide who has
ultimate authority — but ensures that there's «superlative business execution.»
Under the Canadian constitution, the federal government has
the ultimate authority over interprovincial pipelines, although provinces do have the ability to enact laws for environmental protection.
At the theory's core is the assertion that shareholders own the corporation and, by virtue of their status as owners, have
ultimate authority over its business and may legitimately demand that its activities be conducted in accordance with their wishes.
Just over half (53 %) are of the view that
the ultimate authority rests with the federal government, while just under half (47 %) say provincial governments should have the power to «veto» projects in their jurisdictions.
In my worldview with the Bible as
my ultimate authority, I can account for these things.
Life is full of possibilities as long as you don't let yourself be ruled from
an ultimate authority or ultimate book or ultimate wisdom.
But since you and I both know God is
the ultimate authority and thus sets the standard, and God clearly is against abortion, and the atheists are erroneously calling very early human life nothing but «a bunch of cells,» isn't it up to us to fight for those lives?
Thus
an ultimate authority giver.
Yes you can think of at least one, so that points to
an ultimate authority that exists outside of our opinions.
If there is
no ultimate authority, why stop Hilter or N. Korea, if it is all realitive then so are your statements and you come off as a intolerant bigot saying that Christians are wrong.
This claim to
ultimate authority is what makes faith both an anchor of any social order (see Romans 13:1) and its most powerful critic (see John 18:36).
What Hamann saw, Bayer argues, was reason's arbitrary fiat of itself, how it elected its own tribunal, named itself its own
ultimate authority.
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