real jurisdiction

"Do you guys have any real jurisdiction out here?

Particularly, he added, "when there is no federal office that exercises any real jurisdiction over solvency and business practices of the industry."

I just don't like the idea of ATF throwing its weight around where it's got no real jurisdiction.

Today the office of Sheriff of Nottingham is a ceremonial position with no real jurisdiction.

Today, the majority of the cardinals are simultaneously residential archbishops or bishops, and they have no real jurisdiction over their titular churches at Rome.

Unlike today, the cardinals had real jurisdiction over the dioceses, parochial churches (called tituli) or deaconries to which they were attached.

Critics said the S.E.C. had no real jurisdiction, but Mr. Sporkin prevailed by arguing that the companies were not keeping accurate records, making it an issue of accurate reporting to shareholders.

Pope Pius II (1458-64) later gave him two titles successively, those of Latin Patriarch of Constantinople and Archbishop of Cyprus, neither of which he could convert into real jurisdiction.

I do not really see how this measure can be monitored satisfactorily because the Community ports and the countries within the European Community have no real jurisdiction over those ships that are flagged or owned in overseas countries.