Sentence examples similar to grasped authority from inspiring English sources

As the existing political order begins to lose its grasp on authority, momentum builds among the diverse forces of the opposition.

He did not grasp earthly authority and overwhelm his enemies with force; he laid it aside.

A mother who heard her child crying outside their Colorado home ended up wrestling him from a mountain lion's grasp, authorities said.

But it was not until 1995 that the local authorities grasped the scale of the racket when, in the first operation of its kind in India, an entire syndicate trading in rhino horn was rolled up and found to have members in China, Taiwan and Tibet.

But if the original indictment seems almost forgotten in the post-9/11 era and the debates over civilian versus military justice, it is still offered by early investigators as proof that the authorities had grasped the threat Bin Laden posed and could have gone after him much earlier.

Some municipal authorities quickly grasped the usefulness of standardised national time.

It is hard now to grasp the cultural authority that the code of passionate honor — with its elaborate rituals of feuds and duels — seemed to give the South in that period.

It is hard now to grasp the cultural authority that the code of passionate honor with its elaborate rituals of feuds and duels seemed to give the South in that period.

Also cause for optimism is reports that the football authorities have finally grasped that institutionalised cheating is something that can only be tolerated at long-term risk to the game's popularity, at least among those who remember that it is supposed to be about sport and not mass prejudice.

Leaders in Haiti, where the state holds a tenuous grasp on authority, twice passed plastic bans a few years ago.

The camera focuses on the scratches and gouges on Naz's back presumably from the rough sex he had before the murder and as the cops force him to stand against the wall and remove his underwear there's more than a hint of sexual violence, of Naz being so thoroughly in the grasp of authority that he has lost control even of his body.