As Europe's Christian rulers pushed back at Muslim control of the Mediterranean, the Norman king of Sicily, Roger II, captured Tripoli and, in 1148, Mahdia, establishing authority over the coast.
Meanwhile, the status of the small Serb minority remained unsettled, and the government in Pristina continued to face difficulty in establishing authority over the Serb-dominated areas north of the Ibër (Ibar) River.
For all the good Hobbes did in shifting our political focus from God to man, he left the impression that the challenge of political theology would vanish once the cycle of fear was broken and human beings established authority over their own affairs.
According to local leaders, a customary practice is used to claim land, using cacti (Opuntia spp) to mark new borders, but the institutional mechanisms that regulate the practice are not in use, as the elders among the new inhabitants have no established authority over the land.
The trick that Orpheus has pulled off is to establish authority without establishing an authority figure.
TO THOSE who see China as an increasingly assertive, even expansionist, power, it offers yet more proof of its determination to establish authority even over fiercely disputed land and water.
We understand you must establish authority".
When is it justified to over ride established authority?
While other Long Island towns received similar Colonial-era patents establishing boards of trustees, those communities have taken the proper legal steps to more clearly establish regulatory authority over the waterfronts and Southold has not, Mr. Danowski said.
Cano was able to establish his authority over the guerrillas' widely scattered fronts.
Although the Crusade did not eliminate Catharism, it eventually enabled the French king to establish his authority over the south.
