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(méi)有什么罩得住的權(quán)威法律，這讓海上強(qiáng)盜們鉆了空子。
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.
由于缺乏保證次要應(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.
于1997年簽署該條約的俄羅斯已經(jīng)開(kāi)始利用條約賦予的合法權(quán)力來(lái)主張其對(duì)自己部分北冰洋大陸架礦產(chǎn)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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