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Meanings of sway over in English

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Usage of sway over in English
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Do you think pseudo-scientific claims have too much sway over public opinion?
The Guardian
2
The Taliban currently control or hold sway over around half the country.
News.com.au
3
Westminster Hive did hold sway over the most fashionable parts of London.
Heartless
4
Once more he held sceptred sway over races long since in oblivion.
AE in the Irish Theosophist
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The Church with all its medieval lunacies once held sway over Cuba.
The bourne ultimatum
6
The Earth held sway over growth and life and healing and protection.
Brotherhood of the Wolf
7
Thothmes I of Egypt was asserting his sway over part of Syria.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
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Butt called and suggested that she should resume her sway over him.
Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.)
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A grown-up child is he who cannot hold sway over his passions.
The Religion of the Samurai / A Study of Zen Philosophy and Disc...
10
Philip for many years had been steadily extending his sway over Greece.
Early European History
11
Control deals usually mean bigger sums, plus more sway over a company's future.
Reuters
12
I want to know who made the rules, what has sway over us.
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
13
Poets in Somalia hold an inordinate sway over the indigenous population.
After the Rain : how the West lost the East
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The powerful vice president Abdul Rashid Dostum also holds sway over the process.
Reuters
15
Her sway over the servants was absolute in its spiritual power.
The Man in Gray: A Romance of North and South
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In every direction the frost-king held sway over an unbroken wilderness.
Forty-one Thieves: A Tale of California
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