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The army, which now holds sway, has promised to act.
But for the American people, the dream still holds sway.
Iran holds sway over the Baghdad government and Iraq's Shi'ite militias.
Voting is so powerful that even a hollowed-out version holds sway.
The small business argument holds sway with a number of conservative groups.
Large-scale protests remain rare in Morocco, where the king holds sway.
Chris Christie holds sway, could try to clamp down on states legalizing.
With more than 2bn monthly users, Facebook holds sway over the media industry.
Hughes holds sway over young women and men, because they are in his employ.
Now, as Yasser, he holds sway over this flawed film and lends it weight.
Like the church, it is an insular community that holds sway over young people.
There are signs that Mr. Tillerson's view now holds sway in the White House.
When one gap is negative and the other positive, the bigger gap holds sway.
Many of those C.E.O.s are Southerners, and supposedly the Atlanta contingent still holds sway.
Old world power still holds sway over the newest Americans: Mexicans, Vietnamese, Indians, Hmong, Yemenis.
Despite local outrage at their actions, the New IRA terror group holds sway through intimidation.
But his summit with the EU, in which Germany holds sway, failed to reach agreement.
LONDON — Across the English Channel, a great and unyielding power holds sway, denying London's rights.
But the militant group now controls or holds sway over roughly half of the country.
Saudi is the de facto leader of OPEC and whatever they do/say holds sway.
This also shows Russia aims to replicate Putin-like regimes wherever Russian influence holds sway.
Turkey now holds sway over more than 21,603 square kilometers (260,2000 square miles) of Syrian territory.
Now, she holds sway over the lives of an entire community, and what's more, she cares!
Palestinians have limited self rule in parts of the West Bank, where President Mahmoud Abbas holds sway.
The Beano ultimately holds sway because it is funny; the characters exist to amuse, not to moralise.
Indeed, our Constitution is meant to ensure that the rule of law holds sway above all else.
The "everything" that holds sway online exaggerates the exaggeration, by eliminating any notion of uncertainty, any qualification.
But in retrospect, that is what the official record is of a public figure that holds sway.
They know China is a one-party state, and that the Communist Party holds sway over everything.
But its message is clear: In a world where hypocrisy holds sway, only angry outsiders can be trusted.
So could another mooted rival, Comcast, where Chief Executive Brian Roberts' clan holds sway through super-voting shares.
While the West Bank remains under Israeli occupation overall, the Palestinian Authority holds sway over parts of it.
But support in the House from defense hawks, over whom Thornberry holds sway, gives the deal a boost.
Hamas, the Islamic militant group that holds sway in Gaza, praised Sunday's attack, without taking responsibility for it.
There is the rise of "no-go areas", where the authorities fear to tread and sharia law holds sway.
In rural areas, where the group holds sway, they have often stoned women to death for suspected moral offenses.
The '80s continued that trend, paving the way for the sequel-heavy reliance on "franchises" that currently holds sway.
They're states where people say "pop" instead of "soda" (except for around the Great Lakes, where "soda" holds sway).
Russia, which already exerted considerable political influence in Syria, holds sway over its foreign policy, military and security services.
Red may rule in rural America, but blue holds sway in the country's multicultural cities, wherever they may be.
The partnership also holds sway over key licenses that Alibaba requires in order to do business on the mainland.
The Nusra Front is today known as Tahrir al-Sham, a jihadist organisation that holds sway in the Idlib area.
The Nusra Front is today known as Tahrir al-Sham, a jihadist organization that holds sway in the Idlib area.
The pro-Brexit group of backbench MPs, led by Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, also holds sway in her party.
Kauffman went on to say Sasse only holds sway in Congress's upper chamber because the Republicans are in the majority.
When it comes to the Olympics—sports that we didn't invent to be the best at—our GDP holds sway.
It is now painfully clear that we've overestimated intelligence as a world-changing force; it is idiocy that holds sway.
Mr. Norcross holds sway over many Democrats, including state lawmakers and county chairs, in the southern part of the state.
Hazem Kassem,a spokesman for Hamas, the Islamic militant group that holds sway in the Gaza Strip, declined to comment.
Mr. Trump still holds sway with significant parts of the electorate and has off-the-charts approval ratings among Republicans.
How would the domestic and international institutions over which he holds sway and with whom he must coexist likely react?
The notion that Bannon still holds sway with the president even after his departure from the White House is prevalent internationally.
Chris Christie holds sway, could try to clamp down on states legalizing, since marijuana remains technically illegal at the federal level.
Saleh holds sway in the military fighting with Houthi rebels who pushed Yemen's internationally recognized government into exile in March 2015.
They face many of the same pressures as those in nearby Tibet, another semi-autonomous region in which Beijing holds sway.
The army still holds sway over some appointments (all five chiefs of the new regional commands are army generals, for instance).
In this cosmic circle of decay, Jesus offers a new understanding of existence, where death no longer holds sway over everything.
Mr. Heastie holds sway because his Assembly Democrats would alone be only a handful of votes short of the number needed.
The Fatah movement of Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas who holds sway in the Israeli-occupied West Bank has denounced the talks.
That's despite having a slim chance of success: The rival Grand Old Party still holds sway in the Senate and the White House.
But members of IEC believe that move doesn't go far enough, and that the box inherently holds sway in the decision-making process.
No monolithic religion or reality holds sway here; even "the Orient" proves to be a pure fiction that cannot square with actual existence.
These days such thinking holds sway in a commission fretful about the rise of anti-globalisation populists, like Marine Le Pen in France.
And under a statute enacted during the Civil War, the state where the loan originates is where the applicable usury law holds sway.
Surrender deals were reached with the armed groups, allowing thousands to evacuate to the northern province of Idlib, where the opposition still holds sway.
Her backing is particularly meaningful in Iowa, where Palin holds sway with Christian conservatives -- a group Trump is competing for votes against Texas Sen.
He added that China's tipple of choice is still the baijiu, a traditional drink made from fermented grain that holds sway in the country.
Since then it has lost more than 90% of that territory and today holds sway over pockets of remote terrain straddling the two countries.
The comments sparked concerns from progressives that Clinton, who still holds sway over moderate voters, would not back Sanders should he emerge as the nominee.
Ultimately, neither money nor gossip in Little Guyana holds sway over proceedings in the homeland, where the case appeared to be breaking down last month.
Expedia plans to push HomeAway, which has primarily marketed beach and ski rentals, into cities such as Paris and San Francisco where Airbnb holds sway.
These are all names for R'hllor, who holds sway in Essos — where Slaver's Bay, the Dothraki Sea and the Free City of Braavos all are located.
And as in the past, the narrow view that people can be counted as patriotic only if they grant the anthem sacrosanct status still holds sway.
It focused on legislation that would give the last word on deciding land boundaries for indigenous reservations to Congress, where a powerful farm lobby holds sway.
Numbers grew after the campaign gained support from the Islamist group Hamas, which holds sway in mosques, especially in cities where it has a sizeable following.
The idea of the traditional holds sway until there's the new traditional, and the radical always feels outlier until through time it's shaped into the traditional.
However, the 19-year-old isn't merely influencing the beauty world: According to a new study from Genius, she holds sway over our musical tastes as well.
The fear of educated women still holds sway; the Taliban, Boko Haram, and other extremist sects commit shocking acts of terror to prevent girls from attending school.
And yet our fear holds sway when it comes to terrorism, to retaining our compassion and commitment to Constitutional freedoms while stopping those who would hurt us.
If any of them prevail, their administration would have to seek a permission slip from the Court if it wants to regulate, if Gorsuch's view holds sway.
Sadr, whose opinion holds sway with tens of thousands of supporters, warned party leaders last week that they would face street protests if they obstruct the government overhaul.
We may have to wait until June to find out which of his principles holds sway—and whether the rights of the baker or the couple are vindicated.
Sarkozy seeks to incorporate elements of his competitor's rhetoric, vowing to preserve French "identity" and restore public "authority" in the "numerous areas" where it no longer holds sway.
Donald Trump's name might be mud in the blue states, the big coastal cities, and the halls of the congressional establishment, but in Alabama he still holds sway.
A certain amount of fear-of-missing-out also holds sway: If your competitor is sending a lot of folks to Cannes, then shouldn't you be there, too?
It would increasingly transform the A.N.C. into a party dependent on poor urban and rural voters — the people over whom it holds sway through social benefits and patronage.
The Taliban holds sway in most of the province where ethnic Pashtuns live, while the government&aposs influence is limited to Ghazni and small pockets dominated by ethnic Hazaras.
Sadr, whose opinion holds sway over tens of thousands, including fighters who fought U.S. troops in 2006-07, threatened to break into the Green Zone unless Abadi took action.
Iran is striving to shore up control of a corridor of territory from Tehran through Iraq and Syria to Lebanon where it holds sway through allies including those militias.
On Friday, Oi's board, over which Tanure holds sway, appointed two new members to management, ensuring the company plan could formally be presented to creditors despite some internal opposition.
Read more " _____ • Alex Pareene in Fusion: "A media apparatus that was built to fleece gullible, generally older people now holds sway over much of Congress and the president himself.
For the most part, the enthusiasm that marked the early days of the anti-Mafia movement in Palermo has given away to the indifference that still holds sway today.
However, the board of the company - over which Tanure holds sway - has held firm against bondholder proposals, and has promoted a plan that would be more favorable to equity holders.
But Caught causes me to rethink this and see our artifices as guerrilla operations against a tyranny in which one type of truth, journalistic truth, holds sway over all others.
Companies pay lots of money to advertise on their platform, one that holds sway, in part, because of enormous personalities who've based their business model on publishing YouTube videos with ads.
Women choose their mates, not the other way around, and the climax of the festival is the choosing of the May Queen, who then holds sway over the final, devastating ceremony.
Last month, the Tripoli-based interior ministry suspended security cooperation with France, accusing Paris of backing Haftar, a commander from the east of the country where a rival government holds sway.
Unlike in West Bank cities, where the Palestinian Authority holds sway by coordinating with the Israeli army over security, there is no Palestinian leadership closely coordinating with Israel on this matter.
Its public prosecutor's office, which since 2017 has operated under the royal court where Mohammad bin Salman holds sway, sought the death penalty against Qureiris, a member of Saudi Arabia's Shia community.
The civil war still rages in the area around Aleppo, ISIS holds sway in large parts of Syria's east and there has been brutal fighting in the countryside of Damascus as well.
Michael Kors, an American fashion company that holds sway in the middle of the luxury-brand market, agreed to buy Versace, one of the few remaining big independent fashion houses, for $2.1bn.
It holds sway across large tracts, particularly in the rural south and east where it has retaken territory lost during the "surge" of 2009-12, when NATO could call on 130,000 troops.
Although 92, he still holds sway among many rural Malays as the man who, during his 22-year rule, transformed a post-colonial backwater with a drive for modernization and national pride.
Besides, the marital presumption, though rebuttable, still holds sway in our legal system—not, these days, so much to preserve the institution of family as to protect the best interests of children.
Controversial rulings out of the court this term could turn the institution into a bigger political issue for voters, particularly if the court's conservative majority holds sway on a number of contentious issues.
Is the image of Iran that holds sway at any given moment tethered to any reality, or is it simply a projection of what we wish and require of it at the time?
He has also failed to unify the Palestinians in the West Bank, where his Fatah faction dominates, with those in the even more desperate circumstances of the Gaza Strip, where Hamas holds sway.
The "Soundcloud" rap scene also holds sway here, but a Jake Paul and Lil Pump meet-up would venture into the realms of the avant-garde, so maybe these worlds should not merge.
Although the Trump campaign last week gave Mr. Manafort an elevated title, of campaign chairman and chief strategist, Mr. Wiley's dismissal offers another sign that Mr. Lewandowski still holds sway within the Trump operation.
In neighborhoods like Mott Haven, a shadow system of street justice holds sway over many young black and Hispanic men, who describe addressing grievances through armed payback because they do not trust the police.
And the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic organization, last week released a report that focused on the Islamic State's attempts to eradicate Christians in the parts of Syria and Iraq where it holds sway.
The Russian federal government, which owns or holds sway over the other two-thirds (some of which is held by Yakutia's regional and local governments), has allowed Mr Ivanov to go about his business.
The war has escalated in recent weeks with the Assad government stepping up its shelling of opposition held towns in the northwestern region of Idlib, where Islamist militant group Tahrir al-Sham holds sway.
To your Australian correspondent, very few of the riskier ones seem funny: perhaps humour is tamer when it has not been forged in a cauldron of fratricide or in countries where political correctness holds sway.
The Thai government, with the blessing of the U.S. government, then dumps hundreds of thousands of Cambodians into what they claim is a "safe area" along the border where the Khmer Rouge still holds sway.
At its root, the case for extending term limits to members of Congress is a populist one, running against the elitism which right now holds sway over much of the political establishment of both parties.
But because of Iran's high profile, both through its sponsorship of militia groups or its stature in regions of the country where Shiite Islam holds sway, it has been a particular target of protesters' ire.
The next year, when Cuomo was running for reelection, he asked de Blasio to shore up the support of the Working Families Party (WFP), a progressive third party that holds sway in New York politics.
The aging and unpopular Mr. Abbas, whose Palestinian Authority holds sway in part of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, hopes to wrest back control of the Gaza Strip from Hamas after a 10-year absence.
Two aides to Refugee Affairs Minister Saleh al-Gharib, a member of the Druze sect, were shot dead on Sunday as Gharib's convoy drove through a mountainous area where a rival Druze faction holds sway.
Although Moore can't do anything about skeptical leaders like Jeffress, he holds sway over a large (if self-selected) group of pastors who are inspired by his twin commitments to theological orthodoxy and cultural change.
Describing what made the athlete great, Solberg emphasized qualities held dear in the majority-Protestant country where Jante's Law - the Nordic equivalent of Britain's tall poppy syndrome whereby individual success is often scorned - holds sway.
But American intelligence and military officials warn that the Islamic State still holds sway with a potent appeal on social media for adherents, from Europe to the Philippines, to carry out attacks wherever they are.
An official newspaper in China, where the Communist Party holds sway over the courts, said: "Some Hong Kong residents have been hoodwinked by the opposition camp and their foreign allies into supporting the anti-extradition campaign".
"The conventional wisdom that China holds sway in the economic realm while the United States wields its influence in the political-strategic domain will ... need to be revisited in light of the survey results," it said.
Mr Greenblatt, the chief negotiator, has opposed unilateral moves by Israel and welcomed the Palestinian reconciliation deal between the nationalist Fatah group (which controls the West Bank) and Hamas, an Islamist group (which holds sway in Gaza).
While both parties have moved further to the extremes in recent years, making it increasingly hard for centrist politicians to operate, the tightness of the contest means those same politicians tend to decide which party holds sway.
Hoping to pressure Hamas to relinquish control of Gaza, Abbas, who leads the rival Fatah faction that holds sway in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, has cut payments to Israel for the electricity it supplies to Gaza.
Friday's protest also fed on Palestinian anger over the failing reconciliation process between Hamas and Fatah, the rival, mainstream movement led by Mahmoud Abbas, whose Western-backed Palestinian Authority holds sway in parts of the West Bank.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal lawsuit filed on Wednesday revives lingering questions about the bloodshed at Kent State University, a traumatic event in U.S. history that still holds sway over many who lived through it 46 years ago.
Sadr, whose opinion holds sway over tens of thousands of followers, agreed to end street protests his supporters had been holding since late February after Abadi presented his line-up for an independent cabinet of technocrats last month.
This was the way it was until the Second Circuit ruled that when a loan was issued in one state but sold in another state to someone other than a bank, the second state's usury law holds sway.
Widely described by lawyers in California as fair, pragmatic and creative, the judge, the younger brother of Justice Stephen G. Breyer, holds sway over whether and how Volkswagen fixes the cars and how vehicle owners will be compensated.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has designated the insurgent group Tahrir al-Sham as a terrorist organization, according to a presidential decision published on Friday, as Damascus prepares for a military assault in northwest Syria where the group holds sway.
At the same time, Ayatollah Khamenei goes out of his way in public pronouncements to reassure his hard-line supporters that their vision of a conservative Islamic theocracy in opposition to America and the West still holds sway.
Brian Huseman, Amazon In Huseman's second year as head of public policy, the e-commerce giant won quick federal approval for the acquisition of Whole Foods — a key victory for a company that increasingly holds sway in Washington.
It now holds sway across large areas, particularly in the rural south and east where it has retaken territory lost during the NATO "surge" that took place from 29 to 2012, when 130,000 troops were stationed in the country.
But what really matters at the end of the day is not what personalities say on Fox News, but the extent to which their view holds sway with Capitol Hill Republicans, who all but disappeared from the airwaves on Monday.
Democratic officials also said Sunday Obama planned to endorse 150 candidates for state legislatures across the country, lending his voice to recorded phone calls, appearing in television ads, and issuing statements of support in places where his considerable popularity holds sway.
And with Playboy, he pioneered a particular view of male sexuality and success — "the guy who is young, vigorous, indifferent to the bonds of social responsibility," as sociologist Todd Gitlin put it to the Times — that still holds sway today.
It's (reasonably) young and hungry, and has risen with Trump all the way to the White House — where Steve Bannon, who helped construct this upside-down media world while running Breitbart News, now holds sway as senior counselor to the president himself.
The 226-year-old is one of around 22014,000 Libyans the United Nations has recorded as displaced by the turmoil in the North African country, living in the capital Tripoli and barred from her eastern home city, where a rival administration holds sway.
Israel welcomed the cessation of hostilities in Syria in February but has indicated it could still launch attacks there if it sees a threat from Hezbollah, which holds sway over southern Lebanon and whose fighters have been allied with President Bashar al-Assad.
A crackdown by the authorities in Bahrain, where a Sunni dynasty holds sway over a majority Shia population, lent poignancy to part of the proceedings in Oslo: the award of an annual prize for "creative dissent" to Aayat Alqormozi, a brave young Bahraini poet.
They have also been generous with Joanne M. Mahoney, the Onondaga County executive, who holds sway over the county industrial development agency, and with Ms. Miner, who received at least $14,500 from donors associated with the developer until 2012, when its contributions to her stopped.
The next month, three women and six of their children, all dual citizens of the United States and Mexico, were murdered in an ambush in northern Mexico by suspected members of a criminal group that holds sway over swaths of the northern border region.
In the current environment, the American people have to know that there are places in the government where the rule of law – not politics – holds sway, and where they will be treated fairly based solely on the facts and an even-handed application of the law.
The Kurdish PYD party, which holds sway over wide areas of northern Syria, has so far been excluded from the talks in line with the wishes of Turkey - which sees the PYD as an extension of the PKK rebels fighting for Kurdish autonomy inside its territory.
Sensible gun or ammunition control will never occur in these United States because the powerful National Rifle Association holds sway over politicians to the point that otherwise rational Americans who have seen the damage that high-powered assault weapons can cause refuse to consider common sense legislation.
Filled out by a fantastical modern-day chapter, in which the ancient convent has become the home of a vampire who holds sway over the town like a courtly, benevolent Mafioso, "Blood of My Blood" is minor Bellocchio but possesses his characteristic fluidity and subtle (yet devastating) humor.
"This is one of those campaigns that looks big on social media and in certain conservative media, but when you get down on the ground in Racine, in Kenosha and Janesville, it's just not there," said Charlie Sykes, a conservative radio host who holds sway among Republicans here.
According to the United Nations, more than 200,000 civilians have fled the regime's offensive in southern Idlib since mid-December, joining more than a million displaced Syrians penned into an ever shrinking patch of rebel-held territory where the former al Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir al Sham holds sway.
"Last week I was re-arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service on the orders of the Bureau of Prisons, which still technically holds sway over my life until May 25th when my sentence officially ends," Brown said in a statement via D magazine, which Brown has been writing for.
On Sunday, April 43, Brown issued a statement posted via support group, Free Barrett Brown: Last week I was re-arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service on the orders of the Bureau of Prisons, which still technically holds sway over my life until May 25th when my sentence officially ends.
His family holds sway over the parent company of many Saudi newspapers, which have breathlessly covered his initiatives, and prominent Saudi editors and journalists who have accompanied him on foreign trips have been given up to $100,000 in cash, according to two people who have traveled with the prince's delegation.
Not because she didn't have ideas but because to her, like almost all the Bikers I posed it to, the question seemed to be missing the point of Trumpian politics: She was fighting a war about culture, race, and what sort of vision of America holds sway in this country.
The narrowness of the victory also reflected the big strides into the mainstream the far right has made not only in Austria, but in much of Europe — from neighboring Hungary and Poland, where it already holds sway, to France and Germany, where rightist movements are polling strongly before national elections next year.
The Breitbart wing of the Republican party—the wing of the party that doesn't deal in racist dog whistles but rather straight up racism and which currently holds sway in the White House through Steve Bannon—doesn't need Paul Ryan to vocally support white supremacy; they just need him to care more about cutting Medicare than protecting the rights of minorities.

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