we serve the ultimate authority . 我々の行為はあるお方の御導きによるものです
as a distinguished family , the hosokawa clan continued to be made uneasy after all by the ghost of their predecessor , without asserting any ultimate authority . 名門細川氏は遂に肥後に於いて、強権を振るう事無く、前任者の亡霊におびやかし続けられた。
he signed up to the treaty of amity and commerce with the united states without obtaining the imperial sanction , and asserted ultimate authority in what is called ansei no taigoku (suppression of extremists by the shogunate ). 勅許を得ず日米修好通商条約に調印、安政の大獄といわれる強権の発動を行った。