Sentence examples for asserted authority over from inspiring English sources

In 806 he clashed with the emperor Nicephorus I (who asserted authority over the Eastern church) about the appointment of Patriarch Nicephorus of Constantinople.

Deprived of unchallenged American leadership, countries might jostle to assert authority over their own regions.

During the early years the new administration largely focused on asserting authority over the territory.

That series hinged on the tension of Mainwaring's attempts to assert authority over the polished public schoolboy Wilson.

Mr. Berlusconi has struggled to assert authority over his increasingly fractious majority in Parliament as a widening debt crisis racks markets in Europe and threatens Italy.

Not until the reign of Pope Alexander VI (1492 1503) did the papacy make a determined attempt to assert authority over the whole state.

Rather than asserting authority over her materials, she has a way of letting them speak for themselves, even as she maintains narrative momentum.

Over the next two years, they will train and equip an elite force in the Georgian Army specifically to assert authority over Pankisi Gorge.

Over the next few weeks, Defense Secretary Robert Gates must assert authority over the Pentagon bureaucracy and push through the major procurement cuts he has long hinted at.

If the founder asserts authority over its direction, does that undercut the very power of the currency as a decentralized system?

The second school of thought takes as its starting point "power", including the ability to exercise monopoly control or, in labour markets, to assert authority over workers.