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For example, an 80- or 90-story building can sway between several inches on a typical day, and over a foot during a major windstorm.
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Despite China's increasingly assertive military posture in the western Pacific, a region where America's armed forces have long held sway, communication between the two sides is minimal at the best of times.
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This is similar in many respects to the situation that prevailed in the 1990s, when Rafiq al-Hariri held sway as part of a compact between Syria and Saudi Arabia, and Hizbullah was given free rein to operate against the Israeli forces then occupying the south of the country.
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There are, of course, big differences between the despots who hold sway in these places, Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic.
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North of the Ibar, between Mitrovica and Serbia proper, they hold sway.
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The problems between the billionaire and his candidate may help sway the election to Serhiy Tihipko (or Russian spelling, Sergiy Tigipko), ahead of both Yanukovych and one-time Orange Revolution darling and Forbes Power Woman Yulia Tymoshenko, who is also a candidate.
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Between the world wars, when the British Empire held sway over the subcontinent, adventurers came from far and wide to map the region's valleys and scale its highest summits.
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Between the two of them, Rwanda and Uganda now hold sway over more than half of the entire country.
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He said the most recent instance of candidates having sway with voters was in 1988, when studies indicate that the choice between Dan Quayle and Lloyd Bentsen affected about 1 percent of the population.
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