1.   For the order to be reasonable, school officials must have the legal authority to issue it.

2.   He saw legal authority as characteristic of modern Western societies.

3.   National notifiable disease surveillance is organized around state by state reporting systems for which states have ample legal authority.

4.   Slowly they became the legal authorities on the religious law, adding comments and interpretations of their own.

5.   Under the Constitution, the President has no legal authority -- none whatsoever -- to commit the United States to war.

6.   US agents have legal authority to bring criminals back from overseas.

7.   The legal authorities cranked up the investigation.

8.   The Justice Ministry said that Judge Ahmed Taher al-Zawi would be seeking access to evidence held by the British and US legal authorities.

9.   Finally, there is legal authority based on enactments that can be made and changed by formally correct procedures.