• Some faculty members objected to an outside political organization trying to hold sway over which courses survived.

    NEWYORKER: State for Sale

  • Can regimes that are failing their people so clearly really hold sway over some 350m people indefinitely?

    ECONOMIST: The Arab world

  • Between the two of them, Rwanda and Uganda now hold sway over more than half of the entire country.

    ECONOMIST: Congo��s hidden war

  • He will hold sway over American military operations from Kenya to Kazakhstan.

    NPR: Petraeus Faces Wider Array Of Challenges

  • Thousands of candidates from 50 electoral blocs were vying for 378 seats on provincial councils, which hold sway over public works projects and other decisions at the local level.

    NPR: Iraqis Go To Polls For First Time Since US Pullout

  • The giant insurance group, which owns 22% of Dresdner directly and sells insurance through its branches, is thought to hold sway over 40% of the bank's shares in all.

    ECONOMIST: Dresdner Bank

  • While Mr Ozawa is a divisive figure who faces trial on charges of misreporting political donations, he is still thought to hold sway over more than 100 members of the Diet, our correspondent adds.

    BBC: Five candidates battle to succeed Japan PM Naoto Kan

  • Iranian- and Syrian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas, whose attacks on Israeli troops were decisive in persuading Israel to end it occupation of south Lebanon, hold sway over much of the area in the absence of a strong Lebanese Government presence.

    BBC: UN peacekeepers

  • Most of the Sunni Arabs, the province's largest group, boycotted the last elections in 2005, so the Kurds ended up with a disproportionately large chunk of the provincial government (31 out of 41 seats in the council) and hold sway over the hapless Mr Kashmoula and the council chairman, whom the insurgents curse as puppets and traitors.

    ECONOMIST: Iraq

  • To cultural Marxists, immigrants, even if illegal, hold moral sway over white citizens therefore amnesty and even handouts are justified.

    FORBES: Deconstructing President Obama's Strange Stance On Israel

  • With 47 of 78 seats in the National Parliament, election cycle alliances will not hold much sway over a Herrera administration.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Victory for Chavez in Panama?

  • Health insurance companies and employers that hire them hold significant sway over patient choices of doctors and hospitals through their preferred doctor lists known as networks.

    FORBES: AMA: 70 Percent Of U.S. Lacks Health Insurance Competition

  • Islamists will soon hold unchallenged sway over Gaza and parts of the West Bank, rightly claiming that their terror forced Israel to withdraw and that its continuation will result, in due course, in the "liberation" of the rest of the "occupied" territory (meaning all of Israel).

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Mugged liberal

  • In that vacuum, large, powerful Palestinian families have stepped in and hold increasing sway, especially over security matters.

    NPR: Gaza Clans Occupying Political Vacuum

  • He also notes the increased sway that faculties now hold over university administrators, which often cause big capital projects to run over budget to satisfy professors' stated requirements.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

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