Each partner needs to have a sense of personal authority, power, significance and equality.

Like our Colin here, it was mostly his personal authority holding things together.

Nevertheless, the president's personal authority over the central government is never effectively challenged.

The Feuhrer insisted on holding them under his personal authority.

They know he acts on the personal authority of the Cardinal.

Your personal authority and popularity are down to zero.

In October 1321 the king took up arms to restore his personal authority.

There's something about great personal authority that brings out the worst in people.

His personal authority has now been crippled by the Democrats' control of Congress.

Lay people within the Community, he said, had too much personal authority over other people's lives.