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 Translation for 'person in authority' from English to French
NOUN   a person in authority | persons in authority
responsable {f}person in authority [female]
responsable {m}person in authority [male]
Partial Matches
en personne {adv}in person
pol.
détenteur {m} du pouvoir
person in power
personne {f} responsable [masculine et féminine]person in charge
personne {f} dans le besoinperson in need
sexagénaire {m}person in their sixties
pol.
détentrice {f} du pouvoir
person in power [female]
septuagénaire {m}person in his seventies
Ne pas écrire, se présenter.Please apply in person.
septuagénaire {f}person in her seventies
sexagénaire {f}person in their sixties [female]
occup.
chargé {m} (de qc.)
person in charge (of sth.)
adm.dr.
délégation {f}
authority
instance {f} [politique, juridique]authority
habilitation {f}authority
autorité {f}authority
adm.
autorité {f} de certification
certification authority
dr.
droit {m} d'émettre des directives
decisional authority
pol.
autorité {f} politique
political authority
autorisation {f}authority [permission]
pol.
pouvoir {m} limité
limited authority
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Usage Examples English
  • Sexual harassment in education might involve a student submitting to the sexual advances of a person in authority in fear of being punished, for example by being given a failing grade.
  • However, no such statement is admissible or usable if it appears to the court that the making of the statement has been caused by any inducement, threat or promise referring to the charge against that person, proceeding from a person in authority and sufficient, in the court's opinion, to give that person grounds which would appear to him reasonable for supposing that by making it he would gain any advantage or avoid any evil of a temporal nature in reference to the proceedings against him.
  • Photo identification may be used for face-to-face authentication of identity of a party who either is personally unknown to the person in authority or because that person does not have access to a file, a directory, a registry or an information service that contains or that can render a photograph of somebody on account of that person's name and other personal information.
  • A preliminary investigation was opened by the Paris prosecutor's office for counts of sexual harassment and sexual assault "on a minor under 15 years by a person in authority", and has been entrusted to the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police.
  • The majority decided that those accusations had 'revealed a capacity on the part of the complainant to make a complaint of a sexual nature to a person in authority about a member of her family'.

  • The "Oxford English Dictionary" defines it as "A person in authority (esp. ...
  • In October 29, it was reported that 28 police officers from the MPD filed counter-charges against the protesters for illegal assembly, direct assault on a person in authority, physical injury, resisting arrest and malicious mischief.
  • In January 2021, Beyer was charged with sexual assault by a person in authority and sexual harassment by a person in authority, relating to complaints filed by six former students.
  • He was charged for reckless imprudence resulting in physical injuries and damage to properties and disobedience to a person in authority.
  • He also alienated some of the elders because of his comparative young age to be person in authority in the Vaitupuan community.

  • During the Hamburg Ravensbrück Trials, he was repeatedly named by the accused as the medical person in authority.
  • Land is held in trust by the community; with no single person in authority.
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