Sentence examples for securing authority from inspiring English sources

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One was represented by the men of the tanzimat (reorganisation), who responded to the challenge of the rising European powers by seeking to build a powerful modern army and a centralised administration capable of securing authority over the provinces of an Ottoman empire in long-term decline.

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With the failure of the poorly organised coup, and having secured authority from the president to restore order and security, Suharto's faction was firmly in control of the army by 2 October (he was officially appointed army commander on 14 October).

He later said that politicians can only secure authority one way – by carrying a ministerial red box.

In Milton's Peculiar Grace, Fallon argues that Milton writes about himself to gain immortality, secure authority for his arguments, and exert control over his readers' interpretations.

It helps that the narrative is equally fascinated by the ways in which women secure authority, and even pleasure, within these strictures, and that in the second season its bench of female characters has got even deeper — among them, a seafaring warrior princess, a butch knight, and Tyrion's prostitute girlfriend.

According to The Washington Post, "The [intelligence-gathering] effort was so extensive and costly that the CIA went to Congress in December [2010] to secure authority to reallocate tens of millions of dollars within assorted agency budgets to fund it", U.S. officials said.

On our second excursion via Mopti, we thought we could head up through Douentza after our logistics coordinator had secured authority from the Governor of Mopti and a powerful Lieutenant in the Malian army.

The bird has subsequently been secured, authorities said.

In January, Microsoft announced its intentions to move forward in contracting with ICE after securing an Authority to Operate (ATO) from the agency.

They embraced him for his pursuit of European Union membership, now stalled, and for securing civilian authority over the military, whose influence had been pre-eminent in Turkey.

However, a fully impermeable blockade cannot be imposed without first securing the authority of the UN Security Council.More important, the summit failed to produce the endorsement for a ground intervention in Kosovo which had been advocated by Britain.

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