This man needs to show his authority and stress his importance above everything else.

She closed the drawer and stood up, the better to show her authority.

The guards used physical punishment and exercises, such as pushups, in order to show their authority to the prisoners.

"The Pesh Merga want to show their authority," he said.

The account is set in a section of the Gospel that shows Jesus' authority.

They liked to show their authority along the piers.

"Would you mind," he said, "showing me your authority for this, and telling me what in hell it's all about?"

Now that she had attained it, she was determined to show her authority.

They shot about a dozen of the Lyranians when we first landed, just to show their authority, then they dropped dead.

Those who ruled the city now showed their authority.