State officials received similar authority under the 1996 welfare law.

"So if the Security Council wants to stay relevant, then it has to give us similar authority."

And legislation proposing similar authority for psychologists has been introduced in more than a dozen states over the last decade.

Yet the two presidents occupy the same hierarchical layer, have similar authority, and take home comparable salaries.

Earlier versions gave similar authority to the states as well as to Congress.

For the time being, Morgan and other banks that might win similar authority may have new products but few buyers.

No one with similar authority in the Senate has the same degree of interest.

No Government has had similar authority since 1978, when a Communist revolution sent the country spinning into chaos.

And what if Garion, as a sorcerer, should someday have a similar authority?

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