Sentence examples for to assert dominion over from inspiring English sources

As Scotland move ever closer towards independence, this bulky compendium suggests that it was a big mistake to assert dominion over a land so well stocked with spooks, witches and demons.

Sara, formidable and domineering, had seen to the installation of connecting doors to the second-floor drawing room and the childrens' bedrooms on the fourth floor, allowing her to assert dominion over the fledgling household.

As U.S. officialdom has already noted with some alarm, China is aggressively seeking to assert dominion over the South China Sea between it and Japan and the Philippines.

The Burger King is, of course, immune to the laws of mortal men like Barack, so Barry's scolding finger-wagging is not likely to prevent the almighty Hamburger Lord from touching down on Canadian soil, to assert dominion over all of the double-doubles and Timbits.

Police violence is seen throughout, in unjustified and brutal stops of black men guilty of nothing — essentially, charged with standing while black — when the police, without arresting them, proceed to handcuff them, beat them, insult them with racist epithets, intimidate them, and assert dominion over them.

Hoover "boldly asserted dominion over the entire food chain in America," Whyte tells us.

At the time of the Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini was the most vocal proponent among the senior Shia clerics of velayat-e faqih, while he was opposed at the time by his peer and rival Ayatollah Abul-Qassim Khoi, who disagreed with that interpretation of Islamic law, and dissented from the urge to assert clerical dominion over civil society.

It is to assert ultimate Israeli dominion over this Palestinian land.

To open the West, the government sponsored the construction of three transcontinental railways (including the Canadian Pacific Railway), opened the prairies to settlement with the Dominion Lands Act, and established the North-West Mounted Police to assert its authority over this territory.

But now they want to assert control over the Fed.

Pete wanted to assert ownership over both Bonnie and Trudy.