Sentence examples for authority was over from inspiring English sources

A disagreement between the surviving sources, the Jewish historian Josephus and the Roman Tacitus, makes it unclear whether his authority was over some or all of the province.

But where we do feel we can have authority is over that horse".

Some pirates had turned to buccaneering after fleeing naval and merchant vessels, where the captain was essentially a dictator—"his Authority is over all that are in his Possession," as one contemporary account had it.

This means the internecine street fights between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority are over for now.

Their reaction to the announcement yesterday by the defence secretary John Hutton that despite previous denials the army in Iraq had, after all, handed over two terrorists captured by the SAS to the US authorities was over the top.

After the death of Fatah leader Yasser Arafat in 2004, the Palestinian Authority was taken over by Mahmoud Abbas.

Following an uprising, the city's municipal authority was taken over by dissidents who established the Paris Commune.

Once the election was over, authorities in several provinces declared health emergencies as deaths from swine flu rose to 35.

It's saying that the old ways of running councils and local authorities are over.

Time stops, and the one-hour viewing period permitted by park authorities is over in a flash.

Once the search was over, federal authorities announced they had recovered approximately 209 pounds of cocaine. .