Sentence examples for asserted the authority from inspiring English sources

In the process, and for the first time in about forty years, Brooks has, however inadvertently, asserted the authority of the comedian as the engine behind the Broadway musical.

Three years ago, Virginia invoked the Supreme Court's so-called original jurisdiction to hear disputes between states after Maryland's Department of the Environment asserted the authority to block Virginia's Fairfax County Water Authority from building a new intake pipe to extend 725 feet from the Virginia shore, near the midpoint of the Potomac channel.

Mr Miliband's was to assert the authority he is considered to lack, which he failed to do.

That duty, or pleasure, lies substantially with members of the public who assert the authority to judge what architects do.

These captions of plates in Goya's series "The Disasters of War" assert the authority of actual experience, the war's irreducible fact.

What they notice amid their hurt is that the sacred texts generally back them in their assumptions, and they therefore assert the authority of sacred scripture.

Many Palestinians who by that time represented a majority in Jordan felt little attachment to his dynasty; Ḥussein responded by strengthening the military establishment to assert the authority of the crown over that of parliament.

If doing so is a reflex of the polemical impulse to assert the authority of science, understandable when the project was relatively new, it is by now an atavism that persists as a consequence of this same polemical impulse.

Mack founded the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA), a group resolved to assert the authority of local sheriffs in the face of any federal attempt to register or seize firearms, arrest or search individuals, or use military force against citizens.

The president of the Privy Council became a kind of prime minister; although holders of this office did not hesitate to show independence of Madrid in order to protect their interests, they remained supporters of absolutism, regularly asserting the authority of the royal government at the expense of regional and local rights.

Nothing is more pernicious than people asserting the authority of Holy Writ.