Sentence examples for reassert their independence from inspiring English sources

The Liberals were seeking to extricate themselves from their links with the government and reassert their independence.

Muhammad died three months later, and dissident tribes, eager to reassert their independence and stop payment of the zakāt, rose in revolt.

The weakness of al-Qādir, al-Maʾmun's successor, permitted the Valencians to reassert their independence under the leadership of the Toledan governor, Abū Bakr, who allied himself with Alfonso VI of Leon and Castile.

The spirit of insurrection that inspired the Fronde (a period of civil unrest between 1648 and 1653, in which the high aristocracy allied themselves with the judicial bodies known as parlements in an attempt to reassert their independence of the centralizing monarchy) is clearly marked in the writing of the time, not least in Corneille's tragedies.

Yet, although his authorship of the design is evident throughout the pulpit, the individual dispositions of the various assisting sculptors toward ancient Roman or Gothic forms is equally obvious; the separate strains of the two traditions that Pisano had so successfully united in the Pisa pulpit again reassert their independence at Siena.

Richard II sought to re-establish English control in those areas where the native Irish had reasserted their independence.

The Neoclassical style, which combined conscious Greco-Roman references with a return to the calmer, balanced, and more-rational forms of antiquity, became popular among Iberian academics in the period before the wars of independence; its clear connection to European history was no doubt appealing to Iberian rulers seeking to reassert their presence in the colonies.

Although the country's indigenous majority tried to push for greater rights and judicial independence, she says, the country's elite turned to blackmail, bribery and human rights violations to reassert their control.

Meanwhile, paramount figures are pressured to reassert their authority.

Fickle consumers turn away, seeking to reassert their individuality.

Local authorities could reassert their territorial power too.