First, he prepared to maintain the authority of the United States by force.

To maintain the authority of their Great conservation of the country's welfare and of the true Christian religion.

If they had wished to maintain the authority of the Articles, they would have done best to have kept quiet.

You will long maintain the authority of love, if you know but how to render your favours rare and valuable.

The Thebans, with others of the cities, undertook to maintain the authority of the Amphictyons, and to avenge the violated god.

On examination of the question, too, it appeared to me that we could maintain the authority of our own government over it.

This matters greatly because you need the numbers in the Commons to win a confidence vote and hence maintain the authority to govern.

Kings should unite in maintaining the authority and majesty of each other.

The resolution proposed a compromise; while it maintained the authority of parliament, it offered the Americans self-taxation.

Mr Gallagher and Mr Nikoloff maintained the authority's leaders, and its legal teams, were fully aware of what they were doing.