legal authority

基本解释

The modern freebooter often benefits from the absence of any controlling legal authority on the high seas.
但今天在公海上卻沒有什麽罩得住的權威法律，這讓海上強盜們鑽了空子。
This sort of “shutdown”, in which less urgent services are suspended for lack of legal authority to keep them going, is not unheard of in America.
由於缺乏保証次要應急服務保持工作的法律權威，許多應急服務已被中止，這種“倒閉”在美國也不是前所未聞的。
Russia, a signatory in 1997, already has used the treaty's legal authority to assert its rights to mineral riches on its continental shelf in the Arctic.
於1997年簽署該條約的俄羅斯已經開始利用條約賦予的郃法權力來主張其對自己部分北冰洋大陸架鑛産資源的所有權。

She had no legal authority to stop him from his stupid decisions about money.
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One is the granting of legal authority and the other is actual funding for the war.
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Until that time the government has absolutely no legal authority to regulate that activity.
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