Sentence examples for absolute sway from inspiring English sources

Still, there were plentiful signs that all is not well within the party, whose faction chiefs have for decades cut deals in smoky back rooms and held nearly absolute sway over their troops.

Miller, formerly a lawyer for the steelworkers' union, came into baseball in 1966, at a time when the minimum player's salary was six thousand dollars a year, and beloved home-town stars toiled on, year after year, for their good old original teams because the owners actually owned them and held absolute sway over their contracts and their future.

As the new Overlord, the protagonist holds absolute sway over his minions.

The Courtier-Liberal alliance held near absolute sway over Brazilian politics for several years.

For the Age of Enlightenment was not, for the most part, an enlightened age: in 18th-century France, books were burned, brutal doctrines enforced, and absolute monarchs held sway.

The absolute magnitude of the sway thus cannot be considered exclusively representative of vestibular function and needs to be interpreted in the context of other available sensory modalities.

The Government of China is passing from the Imperial clan, whose sway has been absolute since 1644, into the hands of the Chinese people.

Even in Germany, however, his sway was never absolute, and by the end of the century his style of history was under assault from a number of directions.

When a religion is called stupid or irrational, it is those with doubts who suffer and the perceived insults will only alienate them, while those with absolute faith will not be swayed by any amount of logic.

No matter how far off base it is from the real-life Anger's actual inspirations, it is an absolute truth in the alternate universe of Sway.

The absolute values of peak displacement during GVS-induced body sway indicated the magnitude of the peak postural responses to GVS, of which greater values stood for larger body deviation.