Taiwan s people know that they cannot prosper as a democracy if ethnic divisiveness is allowed to hold sway.

A Supreme Court dominated by conservative factions has selected judges and prosecutors, and Afghans have little legal redress in a system that allows local commanders, who hold sway over the judiciary, to act with impunity.

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When China s labor intensive industries emerge from their metamorphosis, we should expect to see firms that are larger, that invest more in product innovation and design, and that hold more sway over business and trade policies.

The second major challenge is to improve the security situation, which continues to be of great concern because of the abuses being carried out by the armed groups that hold sway in poor areas and markets.

Indeed, most banks were under the sway of the central bank.

Of course, Russia s formal institutions of democracy remain in place but, in the absence of a free press, an independent judiciary and free elections in the regions where Kremlin cronies, like Ramzan Kadyrov in Chechnya, now hold sway they have been hollowed out.

In October, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a trip to Lebanon that highlighted Iranian sway in Lebanon.

when women and men are enabled to play their full part in the future of their country, when there is real debate about issues of collective concern about education, health care, employment, governance, social justice extremist and violent ideologies are less likely to hold sway .

(Burundi is an aid dependent country, so donors have considerable sway in influencing its rulers' behavior.)

Nor is it true that nothing can sway the Arab world from its hostility to Israel.

Struensee held absolute sway for almost thirteen months, between 18 December 1770 and 16 January 1772.

Moreover, the Snowden affair reinforces the perception that the US is losing its sway in South America.

Minority ethnic groups are therefore often able to sway the balance of power between major competing forces.

In addition, the speaker may use pathos to appeal to fear, in order to sway the audience.

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They said , It is you who used to come to us from our right , in order to sway .

It is also true that Latin American countries have pursued a massive expansion of economic ties beyond America s sway.

The Washington Examiner explained that the websites were presumably designed to sway undecided voters toward presidential candidate Donald Trump

And hold it there, hold it there, both of you, hold it there.

There was a need for such terms back then, because their crackpot counterparts held much greater sway in general discourse.

Georgia oriented blogger, zabugina , believes that the goal of Russia s military is to destabilize the region and sway the elections.

By 1922 the British Empire held sway over about 458 million people, one fifth of the world's population at the time.

Catholicism in its heyday combined a fairly decentralized administration, under the sway of stand alone bishops, with a uniform set of beliefs.

It was a gradual process in which more sympathetic, albeit firm, US engagement might have helped sway Japan in a different direction.

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If a reformer is to win he must prove that he will be able to sway Iran s political structures toward a reform agenda.

Their example can sway leaders elsewhere to think that they can aspire to economic ascendancy while tightening the screws on domestic political opposition.

So long as the EU continues to sway between integration and containment, it will continue to appear to the Kremlin as weak and directionless.

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Do you feel secure that He who holds authority in the heaven would not cause the earth to swallow you and suddenly it would sway ?

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Please hold on.

Hold this, please.

Jamal, hold on.

Hold your breath.

He has little sway over either the Kiev clan, led by Viktor Medvedchuk, Kuchma's chief of staff, or the Dnipropetrovsk clan of Viktor Pinchuk, Kuchma's sonâinâlaw.

And We placed firm mountains on earth lest it should sway with them , and We made wide paths in them that they may find their way