Word: wield
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...street and told her to go back to the reservation. Honor us? Surely, they jest.I have been waiting silently for the day to come when an outside agency would step up and step in. And that day may be now. We rely on those who have a voice and wield the power of change. As fans, we rely on the NCAA to levy athletic sanctions on UND. As natives we rely on the National Congress of American Indians—which has vigorously opposed the “Fighting Sioux” nickname—to represent us. We rely...
...only "to the limit of our interests." An informed Western observer thinks that while those groups maintain a "shared world view" with Tehran, much as Brits and Americans share each other's, they are now trying to balance their interests with those of their backers and are eager to wield power in Baghdad in their own right. "I think you'll never break a lifelong relationship," says the senior U.S. military officer, "but as time goes by, as they become politicians fighting local issues, they will change...
...several Beijing pharmacies recently. Experts say too few people understand the risks of overuse. Physicians and consumers need to be educated. Says Dr. Raymond Yung, head of infection control at Hong Kong's Department of Health: "Antibiotics are a double-edged sword"?one the world must learn to wield with care...
...tupunis once, until he set aside the powers he inherited from his father and chose the Bible 30 years ago. A former president of Vanuatu's National Council of Chiefs, he is among the most senior of Tanna's 300 chiefs in a community where such men still wield great power. It was his idea to make Tanna the only island to record its kastom law in writing, a feat it completed in 1995, and though he worships in a church, at the same time Numake lives very much as kastom dictates. He embodies the meeting of two worlds found...
...probability, that seriously overstates the case. Present and former trial lawyers populate state legislatures and Congress in numbers large enough to wield formidable blocking power. There is a question, too, of whether the courts would uphold any serious tort reforms that might be enacted. One omen: the Cook County, Ill., circuit court last year ruled that major parts of a newly enacted law stretching out damage awards in medical malpractice cases violated the Illinois constitution...