from the chair

adverb

Roget 737: in the name of, by the authority of, de par le Roi [Fr.], in virtue of; under the auspices of, in the hands of.    at one's pleasure; by a dash if the pen, by a stroke of the pen; ex mero motu [Lat.]; ex cathedra [Lat.], from the chair.   

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