Word: sways
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...implicitly that he selected him as the translator for his 1954-55 meetings with the Dalai Lama. Today, the 85-year-old Wangye lives in Beijing. He believes that those Tibetan leaders collaborating with Beijing are misleading the Chinese leadership by claiming the Dalai Lama no longer has much sway over Tibetans. Wangye has urged Beijing to invite the Dalai Lama to China. Only the Dalai Lama has the standing among Tibetans to convince them to give up their hope for independence (it's self-deceiving to think such feelings do not exist...
...Different factors can be essentially different for different groups." Still, psychological problems are often related, which means that different problems can affect the body in the same ways. The bottom line is that more study will be needed before we know how much sway our brains have over our heart function - and how much we can control what happens in the mind to prevent a heart attack...
Iowans have come to realize that their choice holds enormous sway over the rest of the country, and they place a premium on electability, Bender says. "There are candidates who will spend $15 million to $20 million in Iowa before this is over and you're talking about the difference of maybe two, three, four thousand people. TIME magazine [is] going to put somebody's face on the cover versus somebody else's face because of a difference of maybe 6,000 votes...
...like Bill Clinton in 1992, Huckabee is likely to become the consensus candidate just because there isn’t vehement opposition to him. Those who are worried about his candidacy, namely economic interest groups like Americans for Tax Reform and the Club for Growth, may not carry much sway with the average Iowa Caucus-goer. So this little-known, foreign policy-challenged governor—best known for losing 110 pounds while in office—may be our next president. He may believe gay marriage undermines civilization, but at least we won’t pop a blood...
...enduring nature of these concerns suggest that there are limits to the UC’s power to sway the administration...