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.

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.

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

And He alone holds sway over His servants and sets guardians over you till death approaches any of you and Our deputed angels take his soul , neglecting no part of their task .

And He alone holds sway over His servants and sets guardians over you till death approaches any of you and Our deputed angels take his soul , neglecting no part of their task .

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.

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On the Day the heaven will sway with circular motion

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.

Consider the seemingly heated debate over how much capital banks should hold.

He has the supreme hold over His servants . He is All Wise , All Aware .

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 .

In four months of training I was able to hold my breath for over seven minutes.

COPENHAGEN All over Europe, budgets are being pared as a new age of austerity takes hold.

He has lost all authority in Gaza, and has a tenuous hold over the West Bank.

The Greek Cypriots regularly hold the EU hostage over any dealings with Turkey, as has Greece.

Modi is of course well aware that the past retains a powerful hold over India s present.

(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.

Fourth, while all this has been happening, the institutions set up after World War II to create global rules and to preside over their implementation have lost much of their political and economic sway and legitimacy.

But the SCAF side is applying a similar strategy strengthening its hold over the key power ministries.

But, in China, party leaders like Bo hold life or death power over citizens and their families.

environment in which to hold Afghanistan's first parliamentary elections in over 30 years, on 18 September 2005.

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.

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

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

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Experience shows that democracies hold the edge over authoritarian regimes when it comes to handling the fallout from crises.

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

Over time, however, social and family surroundings, and the limited resources of their families, begin to hold minority children back.

In effect, financial markets have established an implicit veto over much of economic policy and the people who can hold top policymaking positions, and it is time to think how we can escape that hold.

Still, it s not over until it s over and in the short term a lot depends on the state s capacity to hold the Swat area and re establish civilian institutions there.

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.

But over the past three years, the prime minister changed each year, and a populist trend in fiscal expenditure took hold.

As for me and my father, we competed for space on the shelves to hold our books all over the house.