Electoral authority is exercised by the Supreme Electoral Council and subordinate electoral bodies.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran s Supreme Leader, has made an uncompromising nuclear policy central to his domestic authority.

Henceforth the cabinet, with himself as its motive power, became the one supreme authority in the state.

Douglas said that Lincoln was defying the authority of the U.S. Supreme Court and the Dred Scott decision.

Adalah persists in its legal advocacy work, filing petitions to the Supreme Court of Justice of Israel.

Where necessary, job descriptions should specify provisions for delegation of authority to provide legal advice on behalf of the Legal Counsel

The Supreme Leader has absolute authority and can veto decisions made by the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government.

Lesotho stated that the office of the Attorney General would be the designated central authority with responsibility and power to receive requests for mutual legal assistance. Lithuania stated that the Ministry of Justice and the Prosecutor General's Office under the Supreme Court would be designated the central authorities to receive requests for mutual legal assistance.

Indeed, a substantial number of them don t even recognize the Israeli state s legal authority.

The sociologist Max Weber described three bases of authority traditional, charismatic, and rational (legal).

This misguided action only undermines the moral and legal authority of the Security Council.

Liberia's highest judicial authority is the Supreme Court, made up of five members and headed by the Chief Justice of Liberia.

It refers to the Supreme Court's opinion that mental illness cannot be equated to a lack of legal capacity .

The Supreme Court had considered the question of admissibility of evidence obtained from a person deprived of legal counsel.

It is urgent that we cease wavering between the rebel forces and the legal authority.

Legal Aid An ongoing contributor as Defence Counsel providing Legal Aid representation in Supreme Court and Appellate Also served as a Member of the Legal Aid Council from 2000 2003 and served prior to the establishment of the Legal Aid Council (1999 et.

Kazakhstan s Supreme Court has taken recent steps to modernize and to increase transparency and oversight over the country s legal system.

In 2009, the Supreme Court dissolved the main legal Kurdish party, the DST, accused of being connected with the Kurdish guerillas.

Only a government that is sufficiently powerful, in terms of legal authority and solvency, can do so.

They do not necessarily have any legal recognition rather, they are based on respect for customary authority.

Since its inception, the Islamic Republic has had a weak presidency ultimate authority rests with the Supreme Leader, first Ayatollah Khomeini and now Ayatollah Khamenei.

Executive authority is exercised by the President of the Republic, who is Head of State, Head of Government and Supreme Head of the Nicaraguan Army.

Malawi stated that the competent authority charged with the responsibility of coordinating and rendering mutual legal assistance was

Malawi stated that the competent authority charged with the responsibility of coordinating and rendering mutual legal assistance was

The Cook Islands stated that the Attorney General had been designated the central authority that would have responsibility and power to receive requests for mutual legal assistance. Costa Rica stated that it did not have a central authority designated to receive, respond to and process requests for mutual legal assistance. Croatia stated that its central authority was as follows

At the international level, the legal basis of FIU (Supreme Decree No. 24771) allows it to share information with other, similar international agencies.

To be sure, it was a carefully controlled election all candidates who might actually have challenged Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei s authority were disqualified in advance.

What the lively Pakistani media dubbed memogate forced Haqqani to resign and enabled the Supreme Court to assert its authority by deciding to investigate the matter.

Until now, parliament has been an effective tool for the Supreme Leader legitimately to rein in presidential authority, and it is difficult to imagine that the Larijani brothers would have mounted such a sharp challenge to Ahmadinejad without the Supreme Leader s approval.

So it would be far better for each country to enact serious legal constraints on its legislators budget authority.

We remain convinced that the IAEA's activities must conform to its statutory responsibilities, its legal authority and international law.

A leading legal theorist, he was one of the six original justices appointed by George Washington to the Supreme Court of the United States.

WASHINGTON, DC Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has now made the mistake that all Iranian presidents make he has challenged the authority of the country s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

In view of Greece s deceptive behavior, Eurostat, the EU s statistical agency, declared that its Greek counterpart and the supreme Greek supervisory authority had deliberately falsified the data.

The Office of the Attorney General provides legal services to the Government of Guam and is empowered with prosecutorial authority.

Brazil stated that it had designated its Ministry of Justice the central authority for matters related to mutual legal assistance.

Chile stated that it had designated the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the central authority for purposes of receiving requests for mutual legal assistance. China stated for the Mainland Region that it did not have a central authority designated to receive, respond to and process requests for mutual legal assistance.

The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia stated that the central authority for receiving requests for mutual legal assistance would be the Ministry of Justice. Tunisia stated that its central authority was as follows

The key to this proposal is that banks must agree it is a voluntary debt restructuring, compelled by no legal authority.

Estonia stated that it had designated the Ministry of Justice the central authority to receive the requests for mutual legal assistance

Poland stated that the Ministry of Justice had been designated the central authority competent to receive requests for mutual legal assistance

Each claims to be acting with the Supreme Leader s full authority, but ultimately are unable to make commitments because they have little idea of what Khamenei wants to do.

One of the most influential figures in Iran during the Republic s first decade, Montazeri provided an extensive justification for the supreme leader s absolute authority, which many ayatollahs considered heretical.

Seeking a way out of this difficult situation, the Supreme Leader declared that the electoral disputes must be settled in through legal channels, not on the street.

But did these central banks have the legal authority to do so? And, even if they did, should they have used it?