Sentence examples for exerting authority over from inspiring English sources

The Rev. Scott A. Euvrard of St. Joseph's in Needham, said: "One approach would be to come in an authoritarian mode and try to deal with the disruption of the diocese by exerting authority over many different things, over lay groups, over clergy.

"It's about exerting authority over somebody else who's of a different gender from you".

And it's not (and these are my words) that Hamas is exercising any ferocity toward, or exerting authority over photographers when, as Hicks describes, Hamas fighters have proven themselves indistinguishable from the civilian population in a situation where there is no authority to be found.

The subak as a formal organization with a clearly defined division of tasks and functions and exerting authority over a clearly defined section of an irrigation system?

Bishops and nobles often exerted authority over wealthy abbeys; the abbeys thus petitioned Sylvester to free them from all exterior control except that of the papacy.

Courts should take proper notice where public figures have sought publicity especially where it is the public who have paid their wages and ditto with those who seek to govern or exert authority over us.

Today, with the world economy on the brink of a major calamity, it is again time for the world's politicians to exert authority over the international financial system.

The latest violence, Mr. Kislov said, could be in response to recent government attempts to exert authority over the region, though he said support for violent resistance to the authorities was probably limited.

As things stand, Superman is off the scene; America needs protection, so Waller dreams up a plan to recruit a top team of badder-than-bad guys and put them under the control of special forces hombre Rick Flag Joel Kinnamann), who can exert authority over and above that neck-bomb.

Officers McKie and Nelson delegated the duty of maintaining order in the jail to chosen inmates, according to the indictment, and instructed them to exert authority over others by making them give up some of their commissary money and phone privileges.

Townshend Acts, (June 15 July 2 , 1767, in U.S. colonial history, series of four acts passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authority over the colonies through suspension of a recalcitrant representative assembly and through strict provisions for the collection of revenue duties.