Sentence examples for asserting the authority from inspiring English sources
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.
While the strikes against Grenada by President Reagan and Panama by President Bush were so short that the 90-day trigger became a moot issue, many argue that the Persian Gulf involvement - which Administration officials have said will almost certainly last for months - seems almost ideal for asserting the authority of the law.
His task began by asserting the authority of his queen as the equal of the tsar, and ended by obtaining important commercial advantages for British merchants in Russia and establishing a commercial office in Vologda, as well as freeing a British widow whose Dutch husband had been roasted to death.
President Bush signed a little-noticed statement last month asserting the authority to open U.S. mail without judicial warrants in emergencies or foreign intelligence cases, prompting warnings yesterday from Democrats and privacy advocates that the administration is attempting to circumvent legal restrictions on its powers.
According to the people of the Mueda plateau in northern Mozambique, sorcerers remake the world by asserting the authority of their own imaginative visions of it.
Nothing is more pernicious than people asserting the authority of Holy Writ.
Frontenac, with characteristic ability and determination, asserted the authority of the secular arm over the church.
That duty, or pleasure, lies substantially with members of the public who assert the authority to judge what architects do.
The government has long asserted the authority to inspect anyone and anything crossing into the country, according to Rachel Levinseniorldman, senior counsel to the Brennan Center's Liberty and National Security Program.
These captions of plates in Goya's series "The Disasters of War" assert the authority of actual experience, the war's irreducible fact.
