NOUN
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someone with the power to settle matters at will
she was the final arbiter on all matters of fashion
How To Use supreme authority In A Sentence
- The present constitution gives supreme authority to the presidency.
- The federal courts have long recognized that when it comes to waging war, the President, not Congress or the courts, is the supreme authority.
- The first of these, the external or political kingdom of Christ in the visible church, consists in his absolute and supreme authority, to appoint the laws of his church, and rulers by these laws.
- After deliberation, he and his council of officers decided to vest the supreme authority in a nominated assembly, initially for sixteen months.
- No one author is considered the supreme authority.
- The 1945 Constitution stipulates that the President holds supreme authority over the Army, Navy and Air Force.
- The term consanguinity here means, within certain limitations defined by the law of nature, the positive law of God, or the supreme authority of State or Church, the blood-relationship (cognatio naturalis), or the natural bond between persons descended from the same stock. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
- The boyars and their fortified towns submitted to Samuil's supreme authority.
- The present constitution gives supreme authority to the presidency.
- Supreme authority resides in the President / State.