Sentence examples for uphold their authority from inspiring English sources

Soon after capturing Tashkent, General Mikhail Chernyayev entered an elaborate compact with local religious scholars, guaranteeing to uphold their authority, and that of other Muslim institutions, such as mosques and charities.

After the Norman conquest in 1066 various Castles in England were created so law lords could uphold their authority and in the north to protect from invasion.

"We call on Malaysian authorities to uphold their international human rights obligations without discrimination," says Matilda Bogner, regional representative of their southeast Asia office.

"We expect Argentinian authorities to uphold their international commitments and obligations, in particular those resulting from a bilateral agreement on the protection on investments in Spain," said European commission president José Manuel Barroso.

On Wednesday, the authorities upheld their earlier decision to revoke Mr. Ivanishvili's Georgian citizenship, which bars him from running for office or financing parties ahead of parliamentary elections in October.

For my money, UEFA is charging the wrong person if it wishes to uphold the authority of the match officials.

Lacking flexibility or imagination, he was unable to understand that those political deceits that he always practiced in increasingly vain attempts to uphold his authority eventually impugned his honour and damaged his credit.

The UK government claimed to act on behalf of the international community, the report states, "to uphold the authority of the security council knowing that it did not have a majority in the security council in support of such actions.

Blix called claims by Condoleezza Rice, the then US secretary of state, that Washington's policy was one of trying to uphold the authority of the UN security council as "totally absurd".

In those days, the five most conservative justices voted in case after case on the states' rights side, while the four more liberal justices voted to uphold national authority.

We were going to war "to uphold the authority of the United Nations", the government said, meanwhile rubbishing the objections of other security council members and initiating military force without any UN Resolution specifically to authorise it.