Word: sways
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...heart, many of the inhabitants of these countries do not view with equanimity the rule of foreigners, although the world is led to think differently. Encouraged by the rebels' success in Spanish Morocco, part of the native population under the sway of France and Italy began to growl. France and Italy claimed that the constant disorders in Spanish Morocco imperiled the peace of their North Af rican possessions; the implication was that Spain must either keep her Moroccan house in order...
...that King Ferdinand has been described as a cipher, which is partly true. She is credited with forcing Rumania into the War on the winning side, she often concludes much State business over the heads of her husband's Ministers which makes her most unpopular with them. She holds sway in a Court which is probably unmatched for it simplicity. She is democratic almost to extremes, always vivacious and entertaining, and despite her years, always fascinating and brilliant, as many a staid business man and clever 'diplomat has known to his cost. In short, "she is the model...
Scene. At Potsdam, described as "a silk stocking district of Berlin," where the former Imperial Court held sway, princes of the blood royal, princes not of the royal blood, and strings of the lesser nobility, all with high sounding titles, went to the polls to record their votes. The election officials, good Republicans, "bowed and scraped" as each of the Kaiser's men and women recorded his or her vote...
...public policies go, that of permitting free competition is very modern. All through the Middle Ages the government of nation, church, and guild prohibited as far as possible all tendencies toward unregulated competition, and only in the first hectic days of the Industrial Revolution was it allowed full sway. Even before its full evils could become manifest it was checked by the factory and labor legislation of the early nineteenth century. When Mr. Mackay declares that "we must change our present tendencies and get back to the public policies of our fathers" he runs the danger of advocating what...
...they no longer busy themselves despising every Corps student who passes them and whom they think more stupid than his own bulldog. Indeed the Corps student also has suffered a mysterious eclipse. . . ." "Before the War scientific rationalism was the leading force of Germany, and strictly rationalistic philosophy held undisputed sway in every German university. Today this school of thinking fares badly indeed in Heidelberg. A whole army of new men of widely varying intellectual ability has taken up arms against it. A very interesting teacher, quite new in university circles, and a brilliant speaker, now wields enormous influence...