Word: swaying
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...founded the Awami League, and took it to a stunning victory in Pakistan's first national election in December 1970. He stood to become Prime Minister of all Pakistan. But he was an East Pakistani, and the West Pakistanis, who had long held absolute sway in the geographically divided country, were not about to yield power. Relations between the two regions deteriorated swiftly...
Kennedy's spokesman also said the Senator "strongly felt that Congress must have the ability to control the power of big money to sway elections and such abuses in campaign financing as were made public in the Watergate investigation...
...this apparent trust-fund busting were not enough to sway Congress, Ford explained that his proposal would also limit the Federal Government's role in road building to areas of clear national concern like the interstate system. General highway building, he said, is a "classic example of a federal program that has expanded over the years into areas of state and local responsibility." The suggestion was that states and cities would gain new control over every aspect of road building, from financing to construction...
...once rich treasury to gain support among the legions of descamisados (the shirtless ones), who soon came to expect generous social-welfare spending by the government. Now that tradition of bounty has come to a screeching halt and with it, in the opinion of many observers, the sway of the old-line Peronists who served with el Líder in the years of glory. Taking their place are officials loyal to Argentina's Minister of Social Welfare José López Rega, the shadowy confidant of Mrs. Perón. A former astrologer, López Rega...
...dictionary's compilers held sway in an earlier time, Arthur Miller's play could have been called Death of a Sales Representative, and that wellknown refugee from Kypton might have been named Superperson...