It was a rare show of authority.
Choosing to ignore it can be much more powerful than turning it into a major show of authority.
After decades of working the audience, Jacobi seems to have become all face: his head is a sort of large, flat professional mask that well suits the King, whose last great show of authority is the ceremonial handing over of his land, his cares of state, and his best-loved, youngest daughter, Cordelia (Pippa Bennett-Warner), in marriage.
The function of its massive, non-supportive walls have various interpretations: some believe they were martial and defensive, or that they were a symbolic show of authority, designed to preserve the privacy of royal families and set them apart from commoners.
And the government made a powerful show of authority by re-establishing control over the country's most notorious gang-dominated "garrison", or district, and proving that the country's mobsters are not untouchable.Nonetheless, the decapitation of Mr Coke's organisation represents a small, if significant, victory in a very long battle.
Manchester City moved to the top of the Premier League with an ominous show of authority against Tottenham at White Hart Lane.
Per United States v. Mendenhall (1980), a person is seized within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment only when, by means of physical force or show of authority, his freedom of movement is restrained and, in the circumstances surrounding the incident, a reasonable person would believe that he was not free to leave.
We showed lots of authority.
Though Ballard asserts his innocence, the locals are cowed by the show of federal authority.
The Shiite clerics have moved quickly to constrain the freedom of women as a show of their authority.
