Sentence examples for impose their authority from inspiring English sources

In small towns, civilians appointed by local councils are trying to impose their authority over the militias.

When I met him at a censorship conference in Oslo, he said the militias were stopping the music "to impose their authority, so there's nothing to threaten them".

Leonardo and his colleagues needed to know nature truly; no amount of book learning could substitute for actual experience, nor could books impose their authority upon phenomena.

Even after a new dynasty, the Capetians, took over the crown in 987, it took several centuries before they were able to impose their authority on most of present-day France.

The inability of rulers from beyond the Alps to impose their authority upon it was clearly and finally demonstrated by the expedition (1310 13) of Henry of Luxembourg, crowned as Emperor Henry VII.

Several radical Shias, reckoning that their leaders might be more able to impose their authority on the country if the Americans and their allies were to leave forthwith, blamed the Americans.

Eventually the rulers of the southern kingdom of Wessex imposed their authority throughout England.

There men continue to rule the roost, sometimes imposing their authority with drug- or alcohol-fuelled brutality.

They have imposed their authority in Swat and adjoining areas through summary executions - including beheadings - of state officials and political opponents, and intimidation of the population.

But the move quickly stalled, with troops reduced mostly to remotely shelling suspected Taliban sites and the militants effectively imposing their authority throughout the region.

"It is legally offensive because it imposes their authority over the majority of Israelis who do not heed to their authority other than having it pushed down their throats".