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.
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.
Nothing is more pernicious than people asserting the authority of Holy Writ.
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.
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.
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.
Just such a measure was recently quashed by the constitutional court at the behest of the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP .A bastion of Turkey's secular establishment, the court (like the CHP) has the reflex instinct of opposing any moves to assert the authority of elected officials over generals.
They must employ a consistent, principled approach in resolving constitutional questions, and be prepared to assert the authority of their office in doing so.
