Sentence examples for extend their authority from inspiring English sources

Perhaps it's true that all nation states try to extend their authority to act unaccountably.

When presidents are popular (and we are worried), we want them to extend their authority into our lives.

As the state grew rich on the sale of gold from the Birim River district, its inhabitants sought to extend their authority.

Standardization and regularization of tenurial and territorial bonds and of ceremonies such as homage accompanied the development of centralized government, as lords and kings utilized these devices (and many others) to buttress and extend their authority.

These internal struggles were made worse by a century-long effort by the neighbouring colonies of Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, and Connecticut to dismember and extend their authority over Rhode Island.

The Taliban and the drug gangs have operated in Sangin for years and are putting up fierce resistance to efforts by foreign and government forces to extend their authority.

At the same time, they extended their authority into southern Arabia.

They controlled the Janissaries, kept back the Bedouin, maintained security, and sometimes extended their authority to other provinces.

Both Otto and his grandson Otto III (980 1002) appointed and removed popes, presided at synods, and extended their authority over the church.

The first step toward extending their authority outside Bavaria was made in 1214, when Otto II, through marriage, obtained the Palatinate of the Rhine.

These pashas extended their authority beyond the eyālet of Baghdad to include Mārdīn, ʿUrfa, and much of Kurdish Shahrizūr and thus dominated the northern trade routes and secured additional sources of revenue.