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Meanings of absolute sway in English
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Usage of absolute sway in English
1
Provost Baldwin held absolute sway in the University of Dublin for forty-one years.
2
Mrs. Dax had assumed the office of dictator, with absolute sway.
3
You are intended by nature to rule your lovers with an absolute sway.
4
But John Gaviller's absolute sway at the post had sapped the lesser men's initiative.
5
The evidence afforded me was slight; yet it exercised an absolute sway over my belief.
6
To-night the Latin held absolute sway in Dominic Iglesias.
7
Some of the regulations by which the Government held absolute sway over its subjects are:
8
At that time the Indians were very numerous, and under the absolute sway of the missionaries.
9
No one seemed to me to have a more absolute sway in the world of fashion.
10
Silence resumed absolute sway in the long room.
11
A governor from Rome ruled the new colony with absolute sway, and often with unbounded rapacity.
12
While on the road, Slade held absolute sway.
13
Religiously, the Catholic Church seemed in 1500 to hold absolute sway over all central and western Europe.
14
She governed them with absolute sway.
15
Reason first appears in possession of the throne, prescribing laws, and imposing maxims, with an absolute sway and authority.
16
Already it had absolute sway.
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