Sentence examples for territorial powers from inspiring English sources

By then, however, the princes had for the most part defeated efforts to restore royal rights in Saxony and to stem the swollen jurisdictions and territorial powers of the aristocracy elsewhere.

The Army (Annual) Act 1909 gave the Territorial Force powers of billeting in private accommodation when embodied.

Territorial power plays are changing the global geography.

Local authorities could reassert their territorial power too.

Partly in self-defense, Florence became a major territorial power alongside Venice, Milan, and Naples.

The Hohenstaufen breakdown after 1250 left a gap in Swabia that no rising territorial power was able to fill.

He directed the transformation of the Dutch East India Company, then at the very height of its power, from a commercial to a territorial power.

Yet the rise of Visconti power from the 1380s persuaded the Serenissima finally to establish itself as a territorial power on the peninsula.

Thus had the counts of Gelre laid the foundation for a territorial power that, through control of the Rhine, Waal, Meuse, and IJssel rivers, was to play an important role in the later Middle Ages.

To encourage the development of the company as a territorial power, he wanted to confine its activities to the eastern part of the archipelago and to settle Dutchmen in colonies to raise crops and to trade.

He was practical and clear-sighted in his political objectives; the extension of territorial power and the improvement of mechanisms with which to govern an expanded realm were his consistent policies.