"authority" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

authority sustantivo

sustantivo + authority

Kolokacji: 189

Port Authority • Transit Authority • Housing Authority • immigration authority • occupation authority • Exposition Authority • ...

authority + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 17

authority figure • authority official • Port Authority Bus Terminal • authority area • Port Authority official • ...

authority + verbo

Kolokacji: 342

authority arrests • authority investigates • authority issues • authority refuses • authority announces • authority seeks • authority says • ...

verbo + authority

Kolokacji: 158

grant authority • give authority • hold authority • challenge one's authority • use one's authority • undermine one's authority • ...

Kolokacji: 51

Grup znaczeniowych: 22

Kolokacji: 9

Kolokacji: 9

(3) hold, use, defy, exert, share, ...

Kolokacji: 10

(4) challenge, question, call, request

Kolokacji: 4

(5) undermine, weaken, obey

Kolokacji: 3

Kolokacji: 12

(7) exceed, lose, regain, pass

Kolokacji: 4

1. exceed one's authority = przekraczać swoje kompetencje, przekraczać granice swojej władzy exceed one's authority

But how could people - if they did - so exceed their authority?
You exceeded your authority, and I begin to understand why.
"Where things get difficult is when the agent exceeds its authority."
The court said the commission exceeded its authority when it approved the rules in 2003.
If a shareholder vote is required, he said, then the board has exceeded its authority.
A district court found in 1987 that the Corps had exceeded its authority.
You've exceeded your authority, and I'm ordering you to let this boy be.
I think you were protecting a friend, and you've way exceeded your authority to do it.
"It was the work of overzealous security people who exceeded their authority."
I exceeded my authority by running a day past the maximum the technicians gave me.