Nearly four years after President Felipe Calderon launched a military-led crackdown against drug traffickers, the cartels are smuggling more narcotics into the United States, amassing bigger fortunes and extending their dominion at home with such savagery that swaths of Mexico are now in effect without authority.
The hostility became especially intense during the 1820s, as pastoralists extended their dominion.
One of their primary concerns was to extend their dominion over the whole of Gaul.
They then extended their dominion as far north as Timbuktu (now in Mali).
Elected doge in 1414, he extended Venetian dominion over the Trentino, Friuli, and Dalmatia.
An empire is a form of polity where one state extends its dominion, usually by military power, over the territories and populations of others.
During the next 35 years the Visconti extended their dominion by gaining power over Cremona (1334), Pavia, Lodi, Bergamo (1332), Como (1335), Piacenza (1337), Tortona, and Parma (1346).
In serving as a vehicle for Mr. Neil's award, cars have extended their dominion over yet one more component of the cultural dialogue.
The move was widely seen as the beginning of a legal assault by Apple on Google itself, as well as an attempt to slow Google's plans to extend its dominion to mobile devices.
He extended his dominion as far north as the kingdom of Nanchao, west to Arakan, south to the Gulf of Martaban (near what is now Yangon [Rangoon]), and as far east as what is now northern Thailand.
Great Britain's aim was to link Uganda to Egypt via a railway from the Cape of Good Hope to Cairo, while France, by pushing eastward from the west coast, hoped to extend its dominion across Central Africa and the Sudan.
