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 Translation for 'lack of authority' from English to French
carence {f} d'autoritélack of authority
Partial Matches
habilitation {f}power of authority
dr.
déchéance {f} de l'autorité
deprivation of authority
crise {f} de l'autoritéloss of authority
abus {m} d'autoritémisuse of authority
abus {m} d'autoritéabuse of authority
dr.
excès {m} de pouvoir
abuse of authority
adm.
force {f} publique
authority of the state
adm.dr.pol.
puissance {f} publique
authority of the state
dr.sociol.
déchéance {f} de la puissance paternelle
forfeiture of parental authority
reconnaissance {f} de l'autorité de qn.acknowledgement of sb.'s authority
manque {m} de nourriturelack of food
manque {m} de respectlack of respect
désinhibition {f}lack of inhibition
méd.
manque {m} de sommeil
lack of sleep
simplicité {f} [de personne]lack of pretention
artslittérat.mus.
panne {f} d'inspiration
lack of inspiration
incompétence {f}lack of competence
manque {m} de précisionlack of precision
relig.
incrédulité {f}
lack of belief
froideur {f} [impassibilité]lack of emotion
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Usage Examples English
  • To the last government led by Shahpour Bakhtiar before revolution he was proposed to be defense minister, but according to his interview later on due to lack of authority he did not accept the position.
  • The Church of England was central to the lives of the London Company leadership, with all of the men required to take an oath acknowledging the supremacy of King James and the lack of authority over him by the Pope before they set sail to Virginia.
  • These three mistakes are cited as the primary causes of the rapid deterioration of occupied Iraq into chaos, as the collapse of the government bureaucracy and military resulted in a lack of authority and order.
  • Such lack of authority, coupled with the economic hardships of living in a poverty-stricken country, makes the guards especially vulnerable to bribery by inmates.
  • Raffarin's governments were known for their internal quarrels with various ministers taking opposite positions in public. The alleged lack of authority of the Prime Minister was mocked by the media.

  • Bryant's response was called a "debacle" in that he "refused to use city government to do anything to ameliorate economic conditions, citing both lack of authority and lack of money," But he and the supervisors "cooperated to suppress the workingmen's protests and their party," the Workingman's Party of California.
  • Due to unsourced information presented in Baidu Baike, there is also concerns over lack of authority and legitimacy over content.
  • This lack of authority has formed the basis for various control disputes ever since.
  • if the Agent has purported to act in a number of situations and the Principal has knowingly acquiesced, the failure to notify all concerned of the Agent's lack of authority is an implied ratification to those transactions and an implied grant of authority for future transactions of a similar nature.
  • Smith reportedly had grown frustrated with his lack of authority on personnel and staffing decisions, as owner Charles Wang had at that time instituted a setup where decisions were made collectively by a group of advisors rather than by the general manager alone.

  • David craves an authority figure and blames his father's lack of authority and responsibility for many of his struggles throughout the novel.
  • They immediately coin the nickname "White Bread" for Louanne, due to her race and apparent lack of authority, to which Louanne responds by returning the next day in a leather jacket and teaching them karate.
  • He was seen walking around often with monocle and a baton, adopting the character and mannerisms of a monarch, despite his apparent lack of authority.
  • In March, the Assembly broke with the rest of the colonies and wrote a petition to London, but London rejected the petition because it contained claims about a lack of authority of the "parent state" to tax colonists, "which made it impossible" to accept.
  • Under his leadership, and despite the body's lack of authority to prosecute crimes they had uncovered, the Commission exposed kickbacks and fraud in Buffalo and Albany.

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    Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
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