When the city fell to the Turks in 1453, becoming the capital of the Muslim Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman government recognized the ecumenical patriarch Gennadius II as the ethnarch of the conquered Orthodox peoples, with increased authority over the territories of the Eastern patriarchates and over the Balkan countries, as well as farther afield.
In response, colonial governments throughout the region moved to bolster chiefs, granting them increased authority over their subjects while seeking to maintain their subordination to the colonial state and establishing local advisory councils as a substitute for popular enfranchisement and representation in central government.
And he gave deans increased authority over departmental personnel and budget affairs.
There appeared to be widespread support for the administration's actions among those at the meeting, though some conservatives voiced rumblings of disquiet over the increasing authority of the federal government.
Amid heightened public concern over spending, the White House disclosed that Mr. Obama wanted increased authority to strip wasteful projects from spending bills.
They were serious, lending women increased authority.
But she also recommended changes that would take acts of Congress, like increasing regulatory authority over municipal bond issuers by putting it into a single body together with enforcement.
That's on top of legislation aimed at increasing lawmakers' authority over the agency and its spending formulas.
CEUNPA advocates initially giving the UNPA advisory powers and gradually increasing its authority over the UN system.
During this period, especially from the reign of Leopold I, the Habsburg emperors strove to increase their authority over the imperial lands, and their rule became more absolutist in nature and more administratively centralized.
