| Was that Cabinet minister under a misapprehension or do you actually wield power or influence? |
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| It also reminds us of a time when newspapers and periodicals really did wield power. |
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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 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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| In the meantime, Mr Draskovic continues to wield power in the municipality of Belgrade. |
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| Those who wield power are always subjected to closer observation and criticism. |
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| They wield power and influence in their spheres and can facilitate or block the implementation of an initiative. |
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| The number of women on committees who wield power and frame policies is very small. |
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| We should not feel powerless for we actually possess an enormous capacity to wield power. |
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| At last it is beginning to resemble a government endeavouring to wield power. |
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| In general, it is the teachers that wield power in the classroom, and their power is rarely shared with students. |
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| Republicans, like Democrats, are savvy political animals who want to win and wield power. |
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| Increasingly, they want a strong hand — elected by the people — to wield power. |
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| Problems are likely to arise as much out of efforts to share power as they are out of efforts to wield power. |
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| In many countries, diversity is used by people who want to wield power. |
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| They also serve to legitimize the acts of those who wield power, a function that is performed to some extent even by elections that are noncompetitive. |
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| The Brotherhood did not expect to wield power so soon. |
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| In all companies, bosses wield power, which tends to corrupt. |
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| Bigwigs are finding it harder to wield power and harder to hold on to it. |
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| Too many members of former ruling families still wield power. |
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| Compounding this simplistic attitude are the divergent interests of superposed levels of government, which wield power in order to control the indigenous communities. |
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| Specifically, a federal constitution with appropriate checks and balances on all those who wield power is seen to be the answer to the future democratic needs of Iraq. |
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| Practically speaking, for the U. S. government to act, several safeguards are in place to ensure that one branch cannot wield power without deference to the other branches. |
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| Although cartels are the most obvious and pernicious form of cross-border competition abuse, the ability of large firms to wield power across borders cannot be underestimated. |
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| There must be checks and balances on those who wield power. |
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| Take heart from the number of higher souls who are involved in your upliftment, who between them wield power far beyond anything you can reach upon Earth. |
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| It then becomes obvious that power is no 105 longer located in a vacuum, as argued by some theorists, and that there is a close relationship between the democratic system and those who wield power. |
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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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