Sentence examples for its authority on from inspiring English sources

Whether it's at the festival's holy grounds or the superb after-party circuit that surrounds it, Movement Detroit maintains its authority on techno year after year.

In 2012 $2 billion-worth of fines were imposed on families that broke the one-child rule.China tried to stamp its authority on its region by imposing an air defence zone over a swathe of the East China Sea that covers islands contested by Japan.

Let's hope that in Twitter's mad scramble to reassert its authority on key words, colours and functionality, it doesn't inadvertently screw up the ecosystem upon which so much of its success depends.

The report shows how the Fed refused to exert its authority on predatory lending.

But Libya's new leadership was already struggling to impose its authority on the country.

For much of its history, the House of Saud has predicated its authority on religious legitimacy and economic development.

In the documents, released on Tuesday in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the agency would threaten to bring the full force of its authority down on the company, only to back away, citing lack of jurisdiction.

Congress can't base it on its authority to "fix the Standard of Weights and Measures".

In Marshall's time, the court first asserted its authority to pass judgment on the laws of Congress.

(Punishments are also, of course, imposed on non-citizens who commit crimes within a state's territory: on the primacy of citizenship in understanding criminal law and its authority, and on the status of non-citizens, see Duff forthcoming).

Its authority depends on the possibility of enforcing co-operation between its members.