Assertion: authority | /r/CapableOf | make decision
Facets:
value: for their children
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: The term authority identifies political legitimacy, which grants and justifies the right to exercise power of government; and the term power identifies the ability to accomplish an authorized goal, by way either of compliance or of obedience; hence, authority is the power to make decisions and the legitimacy to make such legal decisions and order their execution.
text: For example, the parents have the authority to make decisions for their children till they are not grown up enough to make the decisions themselves.
text: The senior-most people in an organization have the authority to make decisions for the gain of the whole organization.
text: Thus, we can say that authority is basically power to make decisions, power to command others and rule others, but it does not necessarily mean that a person is a responsible person who is ready to be accountable for the people for whom he has authority over.