Word: swaying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other magnates who " hold Germany in despotic sway...
...great outstanding feature of the history of Ethiopia was that the Ethiopian cultural unit stood as an outpost of Egyptian civilization in Middle Africa," writes Professor Reisner. He shows that Ethiopia had become thoroughly Egyptianized while it was under the sway of Egypt, and the Egyptian influence, though gradually diminishing, remained dominant for hundreds of years. During the Meroitic kingdom,--the period when Meroe was the capital,--Professor Reisner finds that several times Egyptian influences on Ethiopian culture were reintroduced and the Egyptian arts and crafts were revived, possibly through the importation of Egyptian craftsmen. The Ethiopians, however, were...
...taxes with which they keep up large armies. There are also Great Tuchuns?the War Lords? who control groups of Tuchuns. These men are the real rulers of modern China; their word is law; they control the Government and the future. As there is no national army, their autocratic sway is undisputed?ex- cept among themselves. As a matter of fact, the President himself is a Tuchun, for he is the virtual military governor of several districts in the proximity of Peking...
...elastic to be classified under one head. It may stretch over a man's entire life or end with his senior year at high school. While it lasts the philosophy of the "milieniumite", the pleasant dream of a little "kingdom round the corner" holds complete sway...
...coming to be regarded as the new alignment of the Powers. France, England, and Italy are all nations firmly founded upon the fundamental security of private property. Behind all of them stands the tremendous shadow of Roman civilization. Russia, and to a certain extent Germany, never came under the sway of Rome and never became so wholly saturated with the traditions of private property. Napoleon's famous saying, "Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tartar", is being vindicated. Russian civilization, at least its representatives in the saddle today show all the characteristics of the wandering, nomadic tribes...