Unable to impose his authority, Grey left the country the following year.

Peace is disrupted when two want to impose their authority at the same time and place.

The forces of the state certainly have the power, and perhaps the will, to impose their authority with great force.

If federal jurisdiction had been established, the states were prevented from imposing their authority.

He was a huge man who imposed his authority by purely physical means.

That voice gradually imposed its authority on his consciousness.

And he could physically impose his authority on the other two, if it came to that.

They soon imposed their authority over some of the neighboring tribes.

He decided to impose his authority, set them against each other, and see what resulted.

At the start Berger immediately imposed his authority by building a cushion.