Sentence examples for reassert authority over from inspiring English sources

After a year of intense policymaking and legislating, Obama's political advisers were attempting to reassert authority over the economic team.

While the new organization is clearly an effort by Russia to reassert authority over its old dominions, it is in fact aimed East rather than West.

Clashes between ISIS and other rebels erupted across the country, pushing the former out of some of its strongholds.Dr Zawahiri appears to be trying both to protect the al-Qaeda brand and reassert authority over jihadist elements in Syria.

Evangelos Venizelos, the Pasok leader (and foreign minister), is fighting attempts by George Papandreou, a former prime minister, to reassert authority over the party founded by his father Andreas, Greece's first Socialist prime minister.

Mathis has sought to reassert authority over the commission, calling a meeting for next week to start discussing final changes to the draft maps.

This last communication came on the heels of a statement from Adm Allen reasserting authority over BP's operations after Doug Suttles' Sunday morning McBriefing that caused a morning media storm when he stated that they could just keep the well shut in until the relief well is completed.

Early efforts by Mr. Putin to reassert authority in former Soviet countries were often ham-fisted.

With the onset of the Great Depression in the 1930s, the governors again began to reassert authority.

No one has managed to reassert full authority over the tribes, regions and groups welded together under the colonel's iron rule.

The governor said elected officials had to reassert their authority over the political process, adding, "That's the real reform we have to make in Albany".

The UK government should use prisoner votes to reassert its authority over Strasbourg, and if necessary, prepare to leave the court's jurisdiction if it cannot be reformed".