(n.) The department or officers having authority over naval affairs generally.
(n.) The court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses.
(n.) The system of jurisprudence of admiralty courts.
(n.) The building in which the lords of the admiralty, in England, transact business.
Example Sentences:
(1) By nightfall, Admiralty had filled up with hundreds of protesters, many listening to music performances and speeches by protest leaders.
(2) Most of the main protest zone at Admiralty remains, although a small patch was cleared last week and protesters still hold a third site at Causeway Bay.
(3) Two of the pro-democracy leaders Benny Tai, a co-founder of Occupy Central, and 17-year-old student activist Joshua Wong urged their supporters as the clashes broke out to leave Mongkok for their own safety and concentrate on the protests around the government complex in Admiralty.
(4) It is rare for Hong Kong.” Police had already said they would support the enforcement of a court order for the removal of protestors from three sections of the Admiralty site, but made it evident that they planned to clear the whole area.
(5) I never thought I would see anything like this in Hong Kong ,” a resident marvelled as we rounded the corner of the flyover and saw for the first time just how many people had flowed into the roads around the government offices at Admiralty.
(6) However, as they returned to the scene of last year’s occupation outside government headquarters in Admiralty on Monday, activists young and old vowed to fight on.
(7) History was made the next day, when Hong Kong’s annual gay pride parade culminated in Tamar park, adjacent to the Admiralty occupation.
(8) The demonstrators, equipped with goggles and face masks to ward off teargas and pepper spray, flooded the streets around the government complex in Admiralty – a bustling commercial area in downtown Hong Kong – leading authorities to divert bus routes and shut down a subway station.
(9) Eighteen-year-old Wong became the face of the movement following his earlier arrest at Admiralty at the very beginning of the pro-democracy protests, as some voiced unhappiness about Beijing’s restrictions on who is eligible to stand as the territory’s next chief executive in 2017.
(10) At 5.58pm on Monday – the exact time that a volley of police tear gas is credited with kicking off the occupation – activists will return to the site of the main protest camp in Admiralty to remember, to celebrate and in many cases to mourn a movement that shook Hong Kong.
(11) A few hundred slept on the tarmac at the main occupation zone at Admiralty, around government offices, but allowed workers to enter the buildings.
(12) Banks was born in Dunfermline, the only child of an admiralty officer and a former professional ice skater.
(13) In a briefing at Admiralty House, Stanhope said: "How long can we go on as we are in Libya?
(14) The other Churchill was then a father of two, serving as First Lord of the Admiralty under Herbert Asquith's Liberal government.
(15) Speaking at a press conference at Admiralty House marking the end of the parliamentary term, the deputy prime minister said: "I don't think it helps at all, when we are looking forward at trying to work out what comes out of the discussions on the reform of the eurozone, to prioritise what we think we can kind of get out of it.
(16) He had been working for the Admiralty as a cryptographer since 1914 and, disliking rowdy young men, got special permission to work with an all-female team.
(17) On Tuesday night, thousands of people gathered at three main protest sites – near government offices in the district Admiralty and on bustling commercial streets in Mong Kok and Causeway Bay – to watch a live broadcast of the dialogues projected on to big screens.
(18) Last night I was in Mong Kok, but tonight I am here as I worried the police might do something in Admiralty,” said Samantha Choi, a trader who has been part of the movement since its early days.
(19) He tweeted: “Please all my friends, at this stage, do not surrender before the battle even begins – we still have a chance.” Yvonne Leung of the Hong Kong Federation of Students told local broadcaster RTHK: “Further actions include a possibility of some escalations pointed at government-related buildings or some of the government-related departments.” After almost two months demonstrators are still occupying the main protest area at Admiralty and a smaller site at Causeway Bay.
(20) It’s another second world war airfield, bigger than Momote, blasted and built by the Americans to receive and launch their bombers in the Admiralty Islands campaign.
Authority
Definition:
(n.) Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority of a court.
(n.) Government; the persons or the body exercising power or command; as, the local authorities of the States; the military authorities.
(n.) The power derived from opinion, respect, or esteem; influence of character, office, or station, or mental or moral superiority, and the like; claim to be believed or obeyed; as, an historian of no authority; a magistrate of great authority.
(n.) That which, or one who, is claimed or appealed to in support of opinions, actions, measures, etc.
(n.) Testimony; witness.
(n.) A precedent; a decision of a court, an official declaration, or an opinion, saying, or statement worthy to be taken as a precedent.
(n.) A book containing such a statement or opinion, or the author of the book.
(n.) Justification; warrant.
Example Sentences:
(1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
(2) Without medication atypical ventricular tachycardia develops, in the author's opinion, most probably when bradycardia has persisted for a prolonged period.
(3) The authors have presented in two previous articles the graphic solutions resembling Tscherning ellipses, for spherical as well as for aspherical ophthalmic lenses free of astigmatism or power error.
(4) The analysis is based on the personal experience of the authors with 117 cases and the review of 223 cases published in the literature.
(5) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
(6) These authors, therefore, conclude that this modified surgical approach is a viable alternative to the previously described procedures for resistant metatarsus adductus.
(7) The authors empirically studied the self-medication hypothesis of drug abuse by examining drug effects and motivation for drug use in 494 hospitalized drug abusers.
(8) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
(9) The authors report 4 new cases of heterotopic pancreas in children with prepyloric, jejunal, Meckel's diverticulum and mesenteric localization.
(10) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
(11) For his lone, perilous journey that defied the US occupation authorities, Burchett was pilloried, not least by his embedded colleagues.
(12) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
(13) Different therapeutic success rates have been reported by various authors who used the same combination of therapy.
(14) No report can be taken seriously if its authors weren’t even in Yemen to conduct investigations.” The UN team was not given permission to enter the country.
(15) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
(16) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
(17) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
(18) The authors report an ocular luxation of a four-year-old girl after a bicycle accident.
(19) For the case described by the author primary tearing of the chiasma due to sudden applanation of the skull in the frontal region with burstfractures in the anterior cranial fossa is assumed.
(20) Midtrimester abortion by the dilatation and evacuation (D&E) method has generated controversy among health care providers; many authorities insist that this procedure should be performed only by a small group of experts.