Sentence examples for to assert authority over from inspiring English sources

Deprived of unchallenged American leadership, countries might jostle to assert authority over their own regions.

That series hinged on the tension of Mainwaring's attempts to assert authority over the polished public schoolboy Wilson.

Mr. Berlusconi has struggled to assert authority over his increasingly fractious majority in Parliament as a widening debt crisis racks markets in Europe and threatens Italy.

Not until the reign of Pope Alexander VI (1492 1503) did the papacy make a determined attempt to assert authority over the whole state.

Over the next two years, they will train and equip an elite force in the Georgian Army specifically to assert authority over Pankisi Gorge.

The second school of thought takes as its starting point "power", including the ability to exercise monopoly control or, in labour markets, to assert authority over workers.

The 36 recommendations include proposals to ensure its national leadership can assert authority over regional branches, including the West Midlands branch, whose aggressive anti-cuts campaign and targeting of Mitchell, a Birmingham MP, has come in for sharp criticism.

Over the next few weeks, Defense Secretary Robert Gates must assert authority over the Pentagon bureaucracy and push through the major procurement cuts he has long hinted at.

During the early years the new administration largely focused on asserting authority over the territory.

Rather than asserting authority over her materials, she has a way of letting them speak for themselves, even as she maintains narrative momentum.

In 806 he clashed with the emperor Nicephorus I (who asserted authority over the Eastern church) about the appointment of Patriarch Nicephorus of Constantinople.