Sentence examples for aggressively wielding from inspiring English sources

I passed a couple who smiled at me; I also encountered a man weaving up and down the sidewalk, aggressively wielding a kitchen knife.

Mr. Cuomo succeeded in part by aggressively wielding a tool pioneered by his much-maligned predecessor, Gov. David A. Paterson: He threatened that if lawmakers missed the budget deadline, he would put his preferred cuts into an emergency spending measure, forcing them to vote for his budget or risk shutting down state government.

Their lone detractor, who later described herself as a "Christian mystic," was aggressively wielding a small, round mirror, shrieking repeatedly that she was reflecting their magical intentions back on them.

Throughout the movie she aggressively wields her sexuality to reinforce a self-esteem that is much shakier than her hard-edged bravado might indicate.

Mr. Schneiderman's investigation of Thomson Reuters evokes the investor-protection campaign waged a decade ago by a former attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, who aggressively wielded the Martin Act to change Wall Street practices that smacked of unfairness.

That power has been most aggressively wielded by fossil fuel companies such as Exxon and Shell which, despite being well aware of the dangers of climate change decades before Hansen's touchstone moment in 1988, funded a network of groups that ridiculed the science and funded sympathetic politicians.

The proposal is the latest illustration of the Trump administration's intention to drastically revamp an agency it says has acted too aggressively and wields too much power.

While politicians and activists sometimes raise the specter of an aggressively encroaching government wielding eminent domain to force sales of private property, governments generally tend to use eminent domain and seizure through condemnation as a last resort, much preferring to buy land from willing sellers at market rates.

Erdoğan campaigned aggressively for the AKP, wielding his polemical scimitar against the Kurdish and Armenian minorities, gays, and critical media.

Denying people access to value is an incredibly insidious form of emotional violence, one that our culture wields aggressively and liberally to keep marginalised groups small and quiet.

The code talks of respecting human rights and not selling weapons that might be used for repression or have a "clear risk" of being wielded aggressively against another country.