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Throw it into a corner and it grips, the body roll is kept to a minimum, no buck and sway over uneven pavement.

Venus would have sway over your home too, so why not wait a few more weeks to go ahead with your plans?

You could turn to HR, though I don't like your chances: an HR lackey usually has little sway over a Master of the Universe.

Derivatives is able to hold considerable sway over the banking system.

And any other elected president will have even less sway over the military.

I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway over the flux.

Various scholarly associations and government and Nazi party offices sway over groupings of these institutions.

The head of News Corp has held sway over Britain's media industry for a generation. Prime ministers have feared and feted him.

After all, they argue, shareholders own the company, and should have sway over its direction.

That might hold up in court, but it doesn't carry much sway over prospective clients.

The GPC functions as a parliament in Col Gaddafi's authoritarian political system, which holds sway over the country's tribal factions.

In the Kremlin's mindset, showing due respect for Russia would have meant allowing it to continue to hold sway over its near-abroad.

Its fighters hold sway over parts of Maguindanao, and these areas are not covered by the martial-law declaration.

Evangelical Christians, a large and powerful constituency, still revere Israel as ordained by God to hold sway over the Holy Land.

Venus, the planet that rules Libra, holds sway over skin, hair, and veins, as well as the throat, kidneys, and lumbar region.

The idea of marketing men having more sway over the men in white coats angers some traditionalists.

You hold much power now, and more sway over your own destiny than you have for a long, long time so don't waste a minute of it.

Mr Ozawa had sway over his children for as long as he held the whip.

They believed that the rich held undue sway over too many sectors of society - churches, legislatures , ships, factories, etc.

But I see now that in the moments immediately after his fall there were subtler elements exerting powerful sway over the future.

He has fought Moscow's corner in a contest with the Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate for sway over eastern Christianity.

IT HARDLY seemed possible that the man had held sway over politics and media for so long.

Capricorn's ruling planet Saturn holds sway over the gall bladder, spleen, bones, skin, and teeth.

Economic reasoning has little sway over how a woman values her body.

Today Taliban insurgents again hold sway over much of the Kandahar countryside.

13 "But the vine answered, 'Should I give up my wine, which cheers both gods and humans, to hold sway over the trees? "

Miss Suu Kyi's sway over international opinion is an important reason for the regime to engage her.

There is little doubt, however, that Mr Thaksin held sway over the splintered, squabbling leadership of the UDD.

The duke realised that for Zhou, a small state, to exercise sway over other feuding states, he could not rely on force of arms.

The by-now-familiar three-spoke steering wheel with leather wrap holds sway over the driver's side.

Turkey would indeed benefit from a peace deal, but its sway over Azerbaijan is limited despite its big Azeri population.

Competitors say Google is abusing its power in Web search to gain sway over the $110 billion online travel business.

As one NATO hand puts it, the row over missile defences has made plain a broader challenge to America's moral sway over its old allies.

Investors received only minority stakes and limited sway over corporate governance.

Despite globalisation, local differences still hold sway over mass retailing, says Sir Terry.

Satan's sway over mankind began when he turned the minds of Adam and Eve against God.

RIM still holds sway over the workplace, but Apple definitely has the momentum in the consumer market.

For a long time the teachings of Confucius and Mencius held sway over Chinese society.

Had Internet Explorer become as dominant as Windows, Microsoft could have held more sway over the development of new services on the Web.

Investors in capitalism's heartland have remarkably little sway over managers in the companies they own.

It is testimony to Mr Berlusconi's salesmanship (and perhaps his sway over Italian television) that he was widely believed.

Senior leaders have long held sway over jobs in select ministries and industrial sectors.

He oversees a new superdepartment, boasts almost as many titles as the monarch and has huge sway over strategy.

Entities such as the Trade Federation and the Commerce Guild held incredible sway over the inner workings of Coruscant politics.

The granite and porphyry monuments of Egypt exert an incredible sway over our feelings.

Pleasure and pain lost their sway over me. I was free from desire and fear. I found myself full, needing nothing.

Rome held sway over a huge empire for several hundred years.

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

These distinctions between ourselves and the primitive held sway over people's minds.

In ancient times, matchmakers held sway over who should marry whom.

Local authorities hold sway over how joint ventures fare.

That source of constant ridicule will never again taunt me. . . his sway over me is broken.

It is losing its sway over people's behaviour but retains a loud and controversial voice.

In medieval times the church held sway over many countries.

But poongsu holds sway over the Korean rich and powerful.

I hold no sway over any decisions by the boss.

It won over 10% of the vote and may now hold greater sway over the government.

But the real hope offered by its recent behaviour is that it also covets her sway over Myanmar's own people.

He has almost no sway over education and health.

He held sway over all England.

For now, shareholders will have greater sway over who is eligible for election to a corporate board.

A mayor of Leeds, for example, would hold sway over more people than the mayor of Washington, DC, does.

Although the society of the Lahaul Valley is patrilineal, the practice of polyandry gave women considerable sway over many matters.

Influence implies a degree of control or sway over the thinking and actions, as well as the emotions, of another: influence

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