Crossword clues for authorities
The Collaborative International Dictionary
authorities \authorities\ n. 1. the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit.
Syn: government, regime.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of authority English) 2 The body that have political or administrative power and control in a particular sphere 3 The bodies that enforce law and order or provide a public service
WordNet
n. the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit; "the government reduced taxes"; "the matter was referred to higher authorities" [syn: government, regime]
Wikipedia
This is a list of Authorities from the V science fiction franchise.
Known members of the police and military forces on Earth defending or aiding against the Visitor horde are detailed below.
Usage examples of "authorities".
I have seen, therefore I ask that the experiences narrated, the statements made, and the views expressed in this book may receive earnest consideration, not only from those who have the temerity to read it, but serious consideration also from our Statesmen and local authorities, from our Churches and philanthropists, from our men of business and from men of the world.
I told her that I would ask the prison authorities to send him to me on his discharge.
In this respect even Lord Rowton's estimable lodging-houses, and those, too, of our municipal authorities prove no exception, for they attract numbers of men who ought not to be there, but who might, with just a little more self-reliance and self-respect, live comfortably outside.
But I commend this kind of property to the searching eyes of the local authorities and the police.
But such places are not burned, though sometimes they are closed by the order of the local authorities.
But oftener still they are purchased by local authorities at great public cost, or by philanthropic trusts.
For years I have been drumming this fact into the ears of the public, and at length the authorities acknowledged it, for in 1907 the Home Office Inspector issued a report on inebriate reformatories, and gave the following account of those who had been in such institutions: 2,277 had been treated in reformatories.
Yet all our penal authorities, from the Home Secretary downwards, know all there is to be known about it.
Yet no question is more persistently avoided and shelved by responsible authorities, for no means of dealing with the defective in mind or body when they commit offences against the law, other than by short terms of useless imprisonment, have at present been attempted or suggested.
Let me then charge it upon our authorities that they are responsible for perpetuating this great and cruel wrong.
They are not in ignorance, for the highest authorities know perfectly well that every year many hundreds of helpless and hopeless degenerates or defectives are committed to prison and tabulated as habitual criminals.
Our authorities even keep a list on which is placed the names of these unfortunates who, after prolonged experience and careful medical examinations, are found to be "unfit for prison discipline.
By establishing in every county and under county authorities, or, if necessary, by a combination of counties, special colonies for vagrants, one for males and another for females.
Every house, no matter to whom it belongs, or who holds the lease, who lets or sub-lets, every inhabited house must be licensed by the local authorities for a certain number of inmates, so many and no more.
Again I say, that local authorities must have the power to decide the number of inhabitants that any house shall accommodate, and license it accordingly, and of course have legal power to enforce their decision.