How To Use Hold sway In A Sentence
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South of the Usk, a completely different approach seems to hold sway.
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No longer can the lowest common denominator or the common good be allowed to hold sway.
Times, Sunday Times
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For reasons of its own, evolution allowed mammalian energy to hold sway, and the recently developed human midbrain or mesencephalon, which had folded over the old diencephalon, could be accurately labeled a mammal brain.
La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
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Rebel forces hold sway over much of the island.
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This discomfort increases sharply in situations where collective hysteria is liable to hold sway: clapping, stamping, cheering, whooping, dancing, that sort of caper.
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No longer can the lowest common denominator or the common good be allowed to hold sway.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rebel forces hold sway over much of the island.
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So will the questions of whether the papacy is to pass from Europe (now seen as a pagan place that needs to be converted all over again) and whether the Italian cardinals or the German ones will hold sway in the conclave.
In Search of a Pope
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South of the Usk, a completely different approach seems to hold sway.
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Fundamentalist beliefs hold sway over whole districts, ensuring the popularity of religious leaders.
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Among people here, traditional values still hold sway.
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These old attitudes still hold sway in the church.
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There was no particular force in the objections of these latter in that district, as the Church school, the only one for miles, would not be large or convenient enough to come under the State aid of the Bill, so almost from the first it was a matter of building one of the new Board schools, where the undenominational system abhorred by Boase would be all that would hold sway.
Secret Bread
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His popularity has plummeted over the last year as he's made one rightward lurch after another in order to appeal to the misanthropic kooks who hold sway in the GOP presidential primaries.
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Is this really the way in which democratic government should work, where a minority hold sway over the ignored majority?
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How long they will hold sway depends on how the Blast goes for the others over the next three years.
Times, Sunday Times
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Far from the new media having overthrown the stuffy conventions of the ‘old media,’ the mores of ‘professional’ print journalists still hold sway.
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For it was acquisition that was beginning to hold sway at the Great Exhibition.
Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain
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If they do not, they will be swiftly identified as places where extremist doctrines or sloppy practices hold sway.
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Rhetorical arguments, often unrealistically extreme, hold sway.
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Religious bigotries hold sway over individuals and communities.
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So unless a cease-fire is secured, the combatants on both sides will hold sway.
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Ultimately, anagogically, linear time ceases to hold sway and the prophetic soul perceives past, present and future as one.
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No longer can the lowest common denominator or the common good be allowed to hold sway.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whilst the empire was destroyed, the colony-states across the ocean survived and became the cities of the Khaiem, where the power of the andat continues to hold sway and hold rival nations, such as expansionist Galt, in check.
A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham
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For reasons of its own, evolution allowed mammalian energy to hold sway, and the recently developed human midbrain or mesencephalon, which had folded over the old diencephalon, could be accurately labeled a mammal brain.
La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
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It is not fashionable these days, in a world in which the apostles of the free market hold sway, to cite Karl Marx, who has long since been demonized in the cathedrals of capitalism.
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The spa town lies in an area where rugby union, cricket and racing hold sway.
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Now his placeman is prime minister, to what extent does he hold sway?
Diary
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Bangladesh is often held up as an example of an Islamic country where the usual savageries do not hold sway.
We should not absolve Islam of the crimes committed in its name
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No longer can the lowest common denominator or the common good be allowed to hold sway.
Times, Sunday Times
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How long they will hold sway depends on how the Blast goes for the others over the next three years.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their business was still overshadowed by private arrangements between individuals, and the commissariat was to hold sway in foreign exchange dealings until the 1830s.
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For it was acquisition that was beginning to hold sway at the Great Exhibition.
Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain
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Whilst the empire was destroyed, the colony-states across the ocean survived and became the cities of the Khaiem, where the power of the andat continues to hold sway and hold rival nations, such as expansionist Galt, in check.
A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham
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For it was acquisition that was beginning to hold sway at the Great Exhibition.
Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain
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How long they will hold sway depends on how the Blast goes for the others over the next three years.
Times, Sunday Times
