Sentence examples for authorities to assert themselves from inspiring English sources

VILLA AHUMADA, Mexico — A massacre here two weeks ago has turned this once sleepy town into a ghostly emblem of the drug violence that has swept Mexico over the last year and a half, gutting local police forces, terrifying citizens and making it almost impossible for the authorities to assert themselves.

EU authorities have been striving to assert themselves on tax, ever since the European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, was exposed by the Luxembourg files during his first weeks in Brussels.

Once persecutions began, public authorities were eager to assert their authority.

Four years later, the agency has yet to assert that authority.

A struggle on the part of the military to assert authority and competing generals trying to present themselves as power brokers to the outside world".

Peace depends on Mr. Campbell's ability to assert authority.

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

But having to assert authority is in itself often an admission of its lack.

The Cayman office, however, was another attempt by Webb to assert his authority.

But Schmidt has done little to assert his authority.

And he likes to assert his authority in unpleasant ways.