legal authority

基本解释

The modern freebooter often benefits from the absence of any controlling legal authority on the high seas.
但今天在公海上却没有什么罩得住的权威法律，这让海上强盗们钻了空子。
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.
由于缺乏保证次要应急服务保持工作的法律权威，许多应急服务已被中止，这种“倒闭”在美国也不是前所未闻的。
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.
于1997年签署该条约的俄罗斯已经开始利用条约赋予的合法权力来主张其对自己部分北冰洋大陆架矿产资源的所有权。

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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