The laminak were female sprites, similar to leprechauns, who could wield either a helpful or harmful influence. |
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The Iranian government has seized the opportunity to wield the soft power of persuasion. |
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How will the new editors wield their enormous influence on the local book world? |
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When he attempted to build a dune buggy from an old car, he taught Alan to wield an arc welder to help him do the job. |
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Earthly rulers wield lordship and exercise authority over those whom they rule. |
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Religious sects have also been templates on which hierarchies form, with ideal opportunities for individual men to wield tyrannical power. |
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If there was a unique and complex weapon that became necessary to be wield in a pinch, she was required be more skilled in it than anyone before. |
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Jenkins ability to wield these performers into ensemble and groupings at moments touched the sublime. |
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Under Japan's political system, towns like Towa wield a disproportionate amount of influence. |
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Ankara maintains a 30,000 strong military force in northern Cyprus and continues to wield significant influence there. |
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The means to destroy the devourer of the worlds was now literally in our hands, and all we needed to do was wield it properly. |
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They are sure that the power that they wield as rulers has won the battle against this one who blasphemes. |
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Her child, who would be born with the ability to wield magic, would not cast a single spell until certain conditions were met. |
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As commander in chief, the president must wield his executive power to hunt down, interdict, arrest, or kill the nation's enemies. |
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In Star Wars, Luke Skywalker had to do a lot of droid shopping and bar-hopping before he got to shoot anything or wield a lightsaber. |
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But there are many very strong women and powerful matriarchs who wield all practical control. |
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For the next six days it will be creativity unplugged as the artists wield brush and give vent to their ideas. |
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As long as we wield our weapons of hatred, greed and stupidity, nothing will change. |
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At school, she was barely able to wield a badminton racket with any proficiency and here she was in a swordfight. |
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They will wield whatever power is necessary to do it, undermine whichever country when it seems useful to do so. |
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Tamora kept her seat, one hand free to wield her sword with unnervingly good aim. |
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Another group put in place of owners would still wield virtually complete power, and aggrandize itself above workers. |
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The poor guy will awkwardly wield a one-handed sword using both hands in the beginning. |
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I must say I didn't feel like a sorceress that was going to wield mighty power. |
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He doesn't wield any real power as long as the committee gets to make the big decisions. |
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The problem, of course, is that when those kids don't learn those things, they grow up to wield power and miseducate their own children. |
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The most impressive new feature is the ability to wield two weapons at once. |
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A manager on an ego trip will see a forceful employee as an opportunity to wield her power and influence. |
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I have never had any general fight training, so each time I have to wield a weapon I start from scratch. |
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But, given a few quid, most women will gladly pay someone else to wield that squeezy mop. |
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These fifty-somethings have plans, and the spending power to wield influence. |
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The second claim is that corporations wield massive power over nation states. |
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They ministered to the religious needs of the people and were able to wield considerable influence. |
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The power that sub-units wield in federations often restricts or violates majority rule, in ways that merit careful scrutiny. |
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Was that Cabinet minister under a misapprehension or do you actually wield power or influence? |
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Many hope that the province will be able to wield some influence with Ottawa when it comes to allocation of the resource next year. |
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The Royal Company of Archers is a group of mostly elderly men who dress up for ceremonial events, but they also wield power and influence. |
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At one point the nurse left the room, leaving the dentist to rather unskillfully wield both drill and suction device. |
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Those men who fear doing anything unmasculine, who wield the charge of femininity like a weapon, are finally undone by that fear. |
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Evan was beginning to learn how to wield a short sword and boasted about his strength and speed. |
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Three young men from Anjanvara wield spanners and engine grease with thinly-veiled pride, mastering a new set of skills. |
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It also reminds us of a time when newspapers and periodicals really did wield power. |
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It opens up the possibility that some grand coalition of socialists and rightists might wield political power there. |
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Little puffs of smoke drifted up from the table as we shyly learned to wield a soldering iron. |
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She dominated the compartment and decided to wield her power over me as well, mocking my stuttering Hindi and mothering me by forcing me to eat. |
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Sales reps wield enormous influence, as doctors depend on them for information on the newest prescription drugs and clinical findings. |
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A marine can wield a flamethrower to improve close combat effectiveness or a missile launcher to take down buildings. |
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If some disaffected street urchin adopted the tone on the train home, a manly Bunyip would shield the little woman with his body and prepare to wield a menacing umbrella. |
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Is he an americanized version of Silvio Berlusconi, determined to wield political and media power in a seamless web of influence? |
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Nora could arm and disarm within a sentence, could wield a barb and its curative salve within a phrase. |
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While we might not like all those who wield it, bds has shown itself to be a tool that unsettles indifference. |
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No, the only chance we have is for news outlets to recognize their awesome reality-creating power and wield it benevolently. |
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The only major difference between Trotsky and his fellow Bolshevik leaders was that he never got the chance to wield total power. |
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He can possibly wield control from inside through a cadre of loyal lieutenants in the field. |
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Which daring seekers will wield those tools, and to what effect? |
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She was strong and could wield any weapon that was handed to her. |
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Now, more than ever, we need to continue our growth as a political force so that we may one day be able to wield the power the Supreme Court has given us today. |
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They are elites, in short, even though they make less money and wield less power than others of that designation. |
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One thing is especially proved by the Paris Commune, that the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery and wield it for its own purposes. |
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He can wield energy as a weapon now, but it is already proving a double-edged sword. |
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But the last national figure to wield ancient personal authority in an explicitly religious way was Robert F. Kennedy. |
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By applying rigidly its own standards of membership, it came to wield an important, if not decisive, economic influence on the profession of artist. |
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The appropriators in both Houses wield a tremendous amount of power over the make-up of the budget, and will fight like cornered animals when their territory is challenged. |
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During Shemayah's time the heretical sect, the Sadducees, were ascendant and would wield significant influence until the destruction of the Temple. |
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When an axe murderer comes at you, it is handy to wield an axe yourself. |
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Having tasted blood once, they will be prepared to wield the knife again. |
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To make matters worse they had stiff, coarse, scrubbing brushes to wield. |
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He barked a command, and the soldiers within the wagon shouted, climbing out of the wagon, their swords long and wide to wield, yet with a devastating blade and strong hilted. |
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Our nation's hand, it was said, would wield the sword of justice. |
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It's nothing but vandalism and bad cess to them that wield the spray cans. |
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Few sore losers could wield sharp words quite like Leon Trotsky, especially when talking about Joseph Stalin. |
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His rather unimpressive exterior belied the terrible power he could wield. |
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It's quite possible that the microbes may be more powerful than the microphages, in which case it's the microphage that gets shot before it can wield the baton. |
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His academic semiotic and philosophical works wield a thousandth of the influence of his bestsellers. |
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In the light of this sexist, miserabilist orthodoxy, surely clear-eyed, hard-hearted happiness is the most maddeningly subversive weapon a woman can wield. |
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Women have been trying to wield Internet shame against men for years now to little avail. |
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I might have more power than you, but if you wield it more effectively you might exercise more influence in certain settings. |
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As a minister and educator to the hill farmers of north Alabama, Pickens was unbeholden to Bourbon patronage, and he was soon to wield his own printing press. |
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Used in this way, representational painting is a somewhat blunt instrument to wield in a complex debate already full of visceral and hysterical reactions on both sides. |
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Maggie was a servant girl in her youth and could wield the dykebrush, carbolic soap and dishcloth with better results than anyone I had ever seen before. |
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The power you think you wield is limited to a few faithful peons. |
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The politicians in them wanted to genuflect to democracy, open debate and all the new citizen journalists who seem to wield so much influence these days. |
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There are few truly evil people in the world, and so it is of vital importance for those who wield illegitimate power to deceive themselves into believing they do so justly. |
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Gather up and deputize anyone who can wield a sword or owns a gun. |
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Men like Rove are the gurus, gray eminences, cardinals and kingmakers to the modern-day queens, and wield tremendous power and influence behind the scenes. |
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Bonobo females form strong bonds and wield more power over daily affairs than female chimps do. |
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Robert K. Steel leans forward, speaking in a rapid, excitable burst about the powers that a superregulator might wield over Wall Street one day. |
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Weber wrote that politics is the sharing of state's power between various groups, and political leaders are those who wield this power. |
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Large realms of the nobility or clergy had estates of their own that could wield great power in local affairs. |
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How do you teach a starlet to wield a bow and arrow like a pro? |
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They did not wield any influence on the building manufacturing centers of the West. |
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Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. |
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It is perhaps difficult for younger readers to understand that a buffoonish old man could wield this kind of power. |
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When the king or queen was strong he or she would wield enough influence to pass their legislation through parliament without much trouble. |
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Permanent members of the Security Council can wield a veto to protect their vital interests. |
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The Forum itself would always, henceforth, wield a strange kind of mesmeric fascination upon the mob demagogue or would-be putschist. |
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The Prussian cabinet saw German unity as an issue of power and a question of who had the strength and will to wield that power. |
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Despite being very small in numbers, the often wealthy mercantile Khatri and Arora castes wield considerable influence within the Sikh community. |
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Legislatures vary widely in the amount of political power they wield, compared to other political players such as judiciaries, militaries, and executives. |
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African and European Americans, however, continue to wield a stronger political influence because of the lower rates of citizenship and voting among Asians and Hispanics. |
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The social engineers of the past were trying to wield the state's repressive weight and facilities to recast society in conformity with AtatE-rk's principles and revolutions. |
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Also, though the fount of power might be the chief, he or she is typically not free to wield power without the consent of a council of elders of some kind. |
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Indeed, even before he took up the Burns Fellowship, Baxter had decided that bawdry was the weapon to wield against Otago's emasculating academics. |
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You can have as many female executives as you can squeeze into a boardroom but women like the drink-driving, dim-witted and knickerless Paris wield a terrifying influence. |
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Fire hoses, made of woven cotton and nylon, are strong, flexible, and light enough for firefighters to wield with great effect under difficult conditions. |
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