They said these questions were best left to the political authorities.

His choice will then need the backing of the president's moral and political authority.

The Church center moved as well to different locations together with the political authority.

There certainly is an issue of "political authority and power."

Each solved the problem of political authority in a different way.

The president has no actual political authority over this issue.

"I told him both health and political authorities were responsible for what happened," he said.

It was a title of religious rather than political authority.

Becoming a town gave the residents more local and political authority.

In so doing, we have done a very important job, but that is not enough as a political authority.