Sentence examples for be allowed to wield from inspiring English sources

One of the delights of our 40s childhood was to be allowed to wield the Flit gun - a spray pump with a barrel containing a DDT preparation that did indeed slay any insect you sprayed with it.

Richard Keys must not be allowed to wield power in his hairy, hairy hands.

As for grown women: The human females I was allowed to wield were but palliative agents.

The "too-connected-to-fail" banks — those with political allies — were allowed to wield great power.

Class-action lawyers have been allowed to wield too much power, and shareholders too little.Whatever the causes, the numbers bear out America's slippage.

Cooking has so many possible attractions for children: danger (being allowed to wield a super-sharp knife); gore (deboning a chicken thigh); or magic (baking bread), to name but a few.

Sean Egan, an engraver, said he had been an apprentice at the factory for a decade, from age 15 to 25, before he was allowed to wield his tools unsupervised.

At first I only watched and then I was allowed to wield tools.

We will not be allowed to vote on those who wield the true power in this country.

A body that, if it appears at all, must be discontented with its "otherness", that is never allowed to wield the sword or fly the spaceship or be the romantic interest.

Thielemann wanted to make those decisions himself - a power that any chief conductor of a British orchestra is never allowed to wield.