Word: wielding
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...They were playing horrendously long points, going 18-20 shots routinely,” Fish said. “He usually does that to other people, he knows he has to get back to drilling.”The slower outdoor surfaces hurt Clayton’s ability to wield the put-away shots that have become almost as important a fixture in his game as his seemingly endless energy.No. 4 co-captain Dan Nguyen lost 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 in a match where he showed the most positive signs yet of overcoming his recent tendency to play...
...will almost certainly hand him five more years in power. Malaysia may be a democracy, but it is one in which the National Front has ruled uninterrupted since independence. The composition of electoral constituencies ensures that voters from the rural heartland, where support for the governing alliance is strongest, wield more power than citizens from urban areas, where opposition parties hold some sway. The weighted system explains why the National Front won 64% of the popular vote in 2004 yet managed to fill 90% of the seats in Parliament. In five decades, the country has had exactly five Prime Ministers...
...charming penchant for intensive theater tech that makes “Be Kind Rewind” an aesthetic success. Individual triumphs of innovation and elbow grease, the bootleg movies are the film’s highlights, sugarcoated with all of Gondry’s quirky techniques. Ghosts wield flashlights and wear saran-wrap, while large cheese pizzas stand in for blood and brain matter in makeshift gangster flicks. Classics like “King Kong,” “2001: A Space Odyssey,” and “Driving Miss Daisy” all get their...
...Pakistan, made up of squabbling ethnic groups with several distinct languages and cultures, has long used Islam to cement a national identity. Those who speak for religion wield enormous influence over a nuclear-armed nation of 165 million that is a key U.S. ally in the global war on terror. This has prompted a race to define the country's founding principles. That contest culminated in the streets of Islamabad last spring when the female madrasah students launched their vigilante campaign against CD shops and massage parlors. "The government point of view is that we challenged the writ...
...bills when they were in the majority that would punish schools that did not comply with tuition restrictions,” Tierney said in an interview yesterday. “We’ve resolved our differences and taken out language that was over the top, and we now wield an overwhelming bipartisan majority...