legitimate authority

基本解释

People there and here struggle with what would constitute a legitimate authority.
那里的人们挣扎着,试图去发现能组成合法权力的力量。
This is still a huge question for us when we think about nation building and building new states, how to create a legitimate authority.
这对我们来说依然是个庞大的问题,当我们思考国家的建设,建设一个新的国家，如何创造合法权力。
They can be accomplished simply by a president exercising his legitimate authority to set priorities for the executive branch.
一位总统仅仅只需运用他的法定权力为行政部门制定优先事项就能实现它们。

He says there should have been an election to re-establish legitimate authority, which was overthrown during the first Soviet occupation in 1940.
Even the expulsion of Satan from heaven was not sufficient to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt the legitimate authority of God.
即使是将撒旦逐出天堂也不足以,无可置疑的证明上帝的至高权威。
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This is still a huge question for us when we think about nation building and building new states, how to create a legitimate authority.
这对我们来说依然是个庞大的问题,当我们思考国家的建设,建设一个新的国家，如何创造合法权力。
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"I do think that to some extent now, we've been able to restore the legitimate authority of the presidency, " Cheney said.
NPR: Cheney's Plain Talk on Presidential 'Authority'