Example sentences of "hold sway [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes the definitions can border on the eccentric : the American admiral who commands all his country 's ships , airmen , soldiers and marines in what the pentagon regards as ‘ the Pacific ’ — as in the admiral 's official title CINCPAC , Commander-in-Chief , Pacific — holds sway over an ocean which has its westerly shores oft Mombasa , and is arbitrarily cut off along a line running due south from the border between Mexico and Guatemala . |
| 2 | And this is the creature who is draining Ireland 's heart away and this is the creature who holds sway over Tara , he thought . |
| 3 | ‘ Did n't you know that Venus holds sway over both of us ? |
| 4 | As we can see , Alvarez' balanced strategy also holds sway in the bass arena . |
| 5 | Overall , the view that blacks ' success in certain sports is not chiselled out of hard work , determination and perseverance , but out of a somewhat intangible capacity called ‘ natural ability ’ holds sway amongst coaches , managers and even amongst athletes themselves . |
| 6 | Similarly , the concepts of the division of labour and organisation through specialisation still hold sway within many organisations . |
| 7 | Having been rejected after holding sway for so long , they are now seeking new ways of making friends and influencing people . |
| 8 | Even Adomnán 's reference to ‘ strangers ’ holding sway among the Dalriadic Scots can not be construed as a reference to the agents of King Oswiu ( or Ecgfrith ) because these strangers are represented as oppressing Dál Riata from c . |
| 9 | What is now holding sway in the super-ego is , as it were , a pure culture of the death instincts , and in fact it often enough succeeds in driving the ego into death , if the latter does not fend off its tyrant in time by the change round into mania . |
| 10 | Boy-proof , Spruce thought , as he felt the solidity of the place about him ; the product of very different values from the ones currently holding sway in education . |
| 11 | Such arguments would not hold sway in a University , let alone in an Oxbridge College , but economic pressures may force their librarians along a path beaten by professional colleagues in another part of the wood . |
| 12 | Their Lordships consider that the judge 's direction here was both helpful and procedurally acceptable and indeed , subject to any practice which may hold sway in a particular jurisdiction , can see absolutely no objection to incorporating similar directions in the judge 's original charge to the jury . |
| 13 | ‘ Realist ’ faces battle to hold sway over divided loyalties . |
| 14 | Although the Victorian values embedded in Tennyson 's lines continue to hold sway in many quarters , most people recognize the inequalities and injustices that result from home and work activities being allotted according to gender . |
| 15 | Maggie sat with the others and Natasha made for the bar where Muriel , an orange-haired dragon somewhere in her seventies , held sway as chief barmaid . |
| 16 | Dickens ' reading of the English Reformation held sway for nearly two decades , but in the early 1980s Christopher Haigh and Jack Scarisbrick began to challenge and revise his interpretation of events . |
| 17 | This was the traditional view which held sway for many years . |
| 18 | The clearest and harshest expression of this twofold approach ( and one which certainly brings into the open its ultimate presuppositions ) was perhaps the application of the doctrine of predestination in the Federal or Covenant Theology of the seventeenth century as expressed in such classic statements as the Westminster Confession , which for centuries held sway on both sides of the Atlantic as the most widely authoritative summary in English of Reformed orthodoxy . |
| 19 | Just as the coastal cities were subjected throughout the centuries to incursions from the interior by the forces of whichever power held sway beyond the mountains — Byzantines , Hungarians , Serbs and Turks — so the tranquillity of the Mediterranean climate is brutally violated from time to time by the icy blasts of the bura . |
| 20 | On the Coromandel coast of Tamil Nadu in south-east India , the Pallava Dynasty which held sway during the fourth to eighth centuries traces its lineage to Naga ancestors , as do many Royal families in Kashmir in the north of India . |
| 21 | Local boards , with less power than municipalities , held sway over smaller towns . |
| 22 | Livermore was understandably keener to discuss the moments in which football held sway over the niggling . |
| 23 | Samo 's empire , about which little is known , held sway over the Sava valley from Zagreb to the Julian Alps , and northward from Ljubljana across Austria , Bohemia and Moravia into Saxony . |
| 24 | Then , under the banner of Islam , descendants of Turkish shepherd tribes stormed Constantinople , fought under the walls of Vienna , subjugated the Balkans and held sway over the Hejaz , Egypt and Algiers . |
| 25 | They are thus not simply a mentality derived from popular religion but from a traditional Roman catholicism which held sway in catholic Europe from the post-Reformation period and remained unchallenged until the 1960s . |
| 26 | However , the significance of the ‘ South Bank ’ theologians was not only to be seen in their effect on the Church , but also , according to Mrs Whitehouse , in their affinity with the secular intellectual elite which held sway in the 1960s : |
| 27 | At the turn of the twentieth century , this ‘ majority rule ’ , as it was known , held sway in the US ; thus denying a shareholder the right to sue a director who used inside information in face to face transactions . |
| 28 | ‘ You will know of our history and you will know that we were sent into that slumber many hundreds of years ago , by the Dark Lords who held sway in the reign of the High King Cormac . ’ |
| 29 | The same attitudes held sway in Vienna . |
| 30 | Even the Symbolist view ( which held sway in Russia in the first years of the century ) that ‘ art is thinking in images ’ can not be admitted , because although it acknowledges that thought in art takes a different form from conventional philosophy , it will in the end lead the study of art beyond art itself to forms of knowing and feeling , to epistemology and psychology . |