Sentence examples for asserting authority over from inspiring English sources

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

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

The ministers will also be pressed to restore security by creating a military and police force capable of asserting authority over disparate militias left from the war, unify the country's tribes and towns, and provide basic services.

Under Dr. Kessler, the agency in 1996 reversed a decades-old policy by asserting authority over tobacco products and issuing rules to crack down on cigarette sales to minors.

A1 THE SHIITES -- Nearly 100 Islamic clerics have affirmed an emerging fundamentalist, anti-American position for Shiite Muslims in the capital, asserting authority over Iraq's Shiite community, whose governance is one of the most pressing issues.

Nearly 100 Islamic clerics have affirmed an emerging fundamentalist, anti-American position for Shiite Muslims in the capital, asserting authority over the country's Shiite community, whose governance is among the most pressing issues in the new Iraq.

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

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.

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