Sentence examples for claimed authority over from inspiring English sources

The European Union has now claimed authority over the country, and the United States has yielded.

Right before publication certain people in the C.I.A. claimed authority over the entire manuscript — putting the book through "double jeopardy" of an unheard-of second full review.

He founded a line of Amorite rulers of whom the first five claimed authority over the city of Ur to the south.

A Republican senator said on Wednesday that 14 Senate committees claimed authority over anti-terrorist activities and that Mr. Ridge had received 41 requests to testify.

During Cuthbert's time as archbishop he no longer claimed authority over all of Britain, like his predecessor Theodore.

The Junta of Seville, in particular, claimed authority over the overseas empire, because of the province's historic role as the exclusive entrepôt of the empire.

Griffith's contribution to the show will be a performance piece about the tensions over who gets to claim authority over carnival: police, spectators or the masquerade performers.

As far as they understood the matter, a country can claim authority over another territory in one of just three ways: by winning a war, signing a treaty, or occupying previously unoccupied land.

Exiles saw it as another onslaught on the much-cherished Tibetan Buddhism by the Chinese government, and foreign commentators were struck by the paradoxical scenario of a communist party claiming authority over an otherworldly matter.

Complete strangers claim authority over our private life and deny us equal rights as a result.

When it was repealed the following year, he was one of a few voters against the Declaratory Act, in which Parliament continued to claim authority over the colonies.