Word: wielding
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...Ryan will wield her bite remains to be seen. Each poet laureate can establish programs of his or her own choosing. Joseph Brodsky, laureate from 1991 to 1992, worked to make books of poetry available in supermarkets, airports and hotel rooms. Robert Pinsky used his three-year tenure to start the Favorite Poem Project, in which Americans read and comment on their favorite poems. Billy Collins initiated Poetry 180, a poem a day to be read in American high schools...
...diplomatic boot was part of the French government's attempt to improve relations with Iran in hopes of winning freedom for nine French hostages in Lebanon. The French expect that Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who spent four months of political exile in France in 1978-79, can wield influence over Lebanese Muslim extremists holding the nine. Earlier, the French government hinted that as part of a deal to free the hostages, it would be willing to negotiate the repayment of a $1 billion loan made by the Shah of Iran...
...seemed on Friday, when U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, speaking at the G8 foreign ministers conclave in Kyoto, vowed to bring the matter up at the U.N. Security Council. No decisive action ought to be expected from that forum, in which China has long shown itself willing to wield its veto to prevent economic sanctions against its African trading partners (of which Zimbabwe is one). Statements of outrage from European governments were scarcely more specific, although British officials said they planned to expand the number of Mugabe cronies on travel-ban lists, and to press the European Union...
...Glastonbury. It's wrong." Gallagher obviously missed previous years' sets from De La Soul, Cypress Hill and the Roots. And while Jay-Z plays on Saturday night, on the other stages Massive Attack, The Ethiopiques, Gilbert O' Sullivan, Simian Mobile Disco and Cansei de Ser Sexy barely wield a guitar between them...
...warring reports coincide with the onset of a presidential election season in which the way forward in Iraq will be a central point of contention. It's a sure bet that G.O.P. presumptive nominee Senator John McCain will wield the Pentagon's 66-page report as a bludgeon against those asserting the war has stalled and that U.S. troops should be withdrawn. Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic contender, will just as certainly use the GAO report as a stiletto to puncture the Administration's - and McCain's - contention that the troop "surge" is bringing victory in Iraq closer...