Sentence examples for claiming authority over from inspiring English sources
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.
With the help of the legal system, scientists and developers are claiming authority over a site that has been sacred and central to indigenous Hawaiians for generations.
After erasing the borders between Iraq and Syria, and amassing an army of an estimated 30,000 soldiers, ISIS declared a new caliphate a sovereign state claiming authority over all faithful Muslims.
He founded a line of Amorite rulers of whom the first five claimed authority over the city of Ur to the south.
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.
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.
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.
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.
During Cuthbert's time as archbishop he no longer claimed authority over all of Britain, like his predecessor Theodore.
