As population became more dense, the county court and the Anglican Church were able to increase their authority.

In the pilot, efforts were made to speed up these decisions, but workers say that further increasing their authority would speed the process even more.

Despite all this, he developed rapidly as a statesman, and soon began to take steps to increase his personal authority as a ruler.

The government has become more sensitive to the Internet's influence on domestic politics and enacted laws that increase its authority to regulate the sector.

Some towns have been authorized to exercise village powers, increasing their authority.

This further increased its authority and enabled it to keep control over events, at least for the next few months.

The House and the Senate have passed legislation increasing the president's authority to negotiate international trade deals.

The fact that they can't see you increases your authority in their eyes.

In so far as Henry had a policy it was to generally push back on papal influence, increasing his own local authority.

The result can only be to improve the standing of the European Parliament among the people and thus to increase its political authority.