legal authority

基本解釋

The modern freebooter often benefits from the absence of any controlling legal authority on the high seas.
但今天在公海上卻沒有什麼罩得住的權(quán)威法律，這讓海上強(qiáng)盜們鑽了空子。
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.
由於缺乏保証次要應(yīng)急服務(wù)保持工作的法律權(quán)威，許多應(yīng)急服務(wù)已被中止，這種“倒閉”在美國(guó)也不是前所未聞的。
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.
於1997年簽署該條約的俄羅斯已經(jīng)開始利用條約賦予的郃法權(quán)力來主張其對(duì)自己部分北冰洋大陸架鑛産資源的所有權(quán)。

She had no legal authority to stop him from his stupid decisions about money.
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Until that time the government has absolutely no legal authority to regulate that activity.
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