Pitching dangerously to one side.
Win approval or support for.
Move back and forth or sideways.
Move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner.
1 How come these ideas continue to hold sway , despite our best efforts?
2 Powerful professional interests, with widespread but ultimately ill-informed public support, held sway .
3 However in this remote region, ceremonies such as Sapana still hold sway .
4 Do you think pseudo-scientific claims have too much sway over public opinion?
5 The sway and influence behind Roumania controls the situation in the Balkans.
6 Sano said nothing, hoping Noguchi's love of scholarly research would sway him.
7 But so far at least, he hadn't been able to sway her.
8 Neither mercy nor reason could sway him; silver was his only measure.
9 She needed to think, to devise some argument to sway her father.
10 The tall palms began to sway and rustle in the forerunning breeze.
11 Aminta was passive as a water-weed in the sway of the tide.
12 The semicircular arch of the thirteenth century still holds sway in Provence.
13 They are the new generation who hold sway in Irish charity circles.
14 Investors are drawing parallels with the 1980s, when similar policies held sway .
15 Try to think what you'd choose if you weren't under his sway .
16 There is no common principle of popular sway recognized in the Constitution.
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