Sentence examples for increasing his authority from inspiring English sources

In December, 2008, he was named Tijuana's Secretary of Public Security, increasing his authority.

As the economic and political situation began to deteriorate, Gorbachev concentrated his energies on increasing his authority (that is to say, his ability to make decisions).

Faced by this prospect, de Gaulle seized the initiative by proposing his own constitutional amendment; it provided for direct popular election of the president, thus further increasing his authority.

Nevertheless, he says that today's Senate is still no match for an executive branch that works 24 hours a day, seven days a week — and for a president who, from the day he is sworn into office, has a vested interest in increasing his authority at the expense of Congress.

Brezhnev increased his authority and by the early 1970s was first among equals.

The balance of power in the relationship shifted toward Summers last fall, when Obama decided not to make Summers Chairman of the Federal Reserve and, as a sort of consolation prize, increased his authority inside the West Wing.

Since taking office, Xi has sought to increase his authority over the People's Liberation Army, which is technically the armed force of the Communist party rather than the Chinese state.

Mr. Malloy said before Thursday's session that he would also ask the General Assembly to increase his authority to privatize state government functions and to approve measures reducing state employees' accrued sick days, freezing longevity pay and changing the way pensions are calculated.

In this office he headed a strong central government, and successive constitutional amendments increased his authority, giving him, for instance, the power to arrest political opponents and detain them without trial if he considered them dangerous to public order a power he used effectively though infrequently.

But Arrian, in the eulogistic assessment of Alexander with which he ends the Anabasis, describes it as a carefully thought-out strategy by which Alexander increased his authority and legitimacy among his Asian subjects.

Earlier this month, Trump was one of the first world leaders to congratulate Erdogan after he won a contentious and arguably unfair referendum election earlier this month that increased his authority.