Sentence examples for claims authority over from inspiring English sources

In that spirit the Hong Kong mission claims authority over Orthodoxy in China and south-east Asia.The Russians reject this interpretation of Chalcedon, and they have established their own mission in Hong Kong.

Plato's dialogue Crito is the origin of several enduring ideas in the philosophy of law, such as that the law by nature claims authority over its subjects and that the very relationship between law and its subjects somehow gives rise to an obligation of obedience.

China claims authority over hundreds of islands within the controversial "nine-dash line," an ill-defined loop encompassing most of the South China Sea.

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

Both the Nationalists and Communists claim authority over all of China, including Taiwan.

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.

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.

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.