Sentence examples for Assertion of authority from inspiring English sources

Comments shall be limited to the tribe's assertion of authority.

The judgment of beauty carries an assertion of authority: something universal has been found.

In fact, his expulsion was an assertion of authority by the prime minister, Manuel Valls, over an unruly firebrand who could not resist mocking his own government.

"The question in every case is, simply, whether the statutory text forecloses the agency's assertion of authority, or not," he wrote.

"We believe this assertion of authority goes well beyond any authority provided by Congress, and creates uncertainty for the communications industry, innovators, investors and consumers," Mr. Glover added.

As for "who am I to judge," surely the pope is not relinquishing the church's assertion of authority in matters of faith and morals.

This lack of confidence erupts in anxious assertions of authority.

The question recurs throughout the first section of the book, and every time it is fraught — as quotidian exchanges so often are — with claims to knowledge, assertions of authority, bids for love.

The question recurs throughout the first section of the book, and every time it is fraught as quotidian exchanges so often are with claims to knowledge, assertions of authority, bids for love.

The assertions of authority by this feisty new class of Democratic governors, in interviews and news conferences throughout the day, came at a time of generally depressed spirits in the party.

Whether from Bill Clinton's executive initiatives in the face of Republican control of both houses of Congress, George W. Bush's wartime assertions of authority, or other actions, the power concentrated in the White House has expanded in each Administration since Franklin D. Roosevelt's.