Sentence examples for and the sway of from inspiring English sources
The Labor party's large Catholic base and the sway of conservative unions such as the "Shoppies" (Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Associationn) have meant the party's support for marriage equality has been hard won.
In 1557, when Suleiman the Magnificent ruled in Constantinople and the sway of the Ottoman Empire extended as far north as Budapest, an Ottoman engineer named Hajrudin came to the city of Mostar, in southwestern Bosnia, to build a bridge across the Neretva River.
Kapalai, as we soon learned, is spare, but not spartan — its 59 chalets are roomy cathedrals with infinite ocean views from the decks, a cooling wind and nothing but the sound of lapping water and the sway of creaking timbers to lull you to sleep.
Amid the chirp of birds and the sway of the breeze, survivors of the Second Corps reminded listeners that they had helped to render "this field hallowed ground, dear to every lover of liberty and the cause of free constitutional government".
Stern would do this thing (the thing, I think, that most non-listeners associate with the show) where hot chicks would turn up at the studio and he would look them over like a horse vet – running his hands over their withers and flanks, inspecting their bite and the sway of their back, honking their massive horse jugs – and tell them, in intricate detail, what was wrong with their bodies.
The weight of conventional wisdoms and the sway of powerful corporations with vested interests in the old sickening world holds back even the better leaders.
For 45 years, Finland was frozen politically under threat of Soviet invasion and had to remain neutral and under the sway of the Soviet Union.
Called a tuned mass damper, it offsets and reduces the sway of the building.
Only when one looked out the window and saw the sway of buildings, did the sense of collapse spread to the outside.
Back in Venezuela he joined a group of anti-academic artists known as the Círculo de Bellas Artes, and under the sway of an émigré Russian Symbolist, Nicolas Fernandov, he did a series of paintings in shades of blue.
Federal prosecutors are considering a civil racketeering lawsuit that would seek control of the 65,000-member InternAssociationgshoremen's association, a union they contend is riddled with corruption and under the sway of two powerful mob clans, officials said yesterday.
