1.   Congress began to assert its authority.

2.   I had to assert the authority of my casting vote.

3.   New disciplinary measures and recommendations asserted his authority over clerical and lay Catholics.

4.   Oftel is still trying to assert its authority.

5.   Riots followed and there was diplomatic pressure on the government to assert its authority.

6.   The State Department pressed him to take bolder steps to assert his authority.

7.   After the war, the army made an attempt to assert its authority in the south of the country.

8.   London merchants were able to assert their authority over their provincial rivals, and with this one can see the beginnings of centralization in the economy.

9.   Town started very positively against the makeshift Bracknell team, and right from the kick off, Abingdon asserted their authority on the game.

10.   And he likes to assert his authority in unpleasant ways.