Sentence examples for exercise sway from inspiring English sources

The United States and United Nations have been concerned that Iran has been trying to exercise sway in Afghanistan.

The duke realised that for Zhou, a small state, to exercise sway over other feuding states, he could not rely on force of arms.

One genuine blow to the class system struck by the Blair government has been the abolition of the right of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords, and exercise some sway over the government.

But it may also be the case that these former lobbyists are now in the position to exercise considerable sway over everything from policy outcomes to government contract decisions and anti-trust decisions.

The Mohn family, which owns a large stake in Bertelsmann, exercises considerable sway over strategy.

The competition regulator has evidence that Mediobanca has appointed decision-makers and exercises general sway over Generali's management.

Since Mann's slander, 60 years of sober scholarship into 20th-century German culture, and into the life of Strauss, have thoroughly aired the great composer's self-inflated but profoundly un-Nazi attempts in 1933-34 to exercise a cultural sway over the new Nazi regime, apparently in the (retrospectively fatuous) assumption that after more than half a century of world fame he'd be listened to.

Aquatic exercise reduced postural sway in women with lower extremity arthritis, as demonstrated by a two-legged stance test, and this exercise program appears to be a viable treatment for increasing postural stability in this population.

The current system allows great leeway to national regulators, who, operating in the role of "lead regulator," would exercise a strong sway over banking regulatory issues that affect an E.U.-wide bank considered to be within their jurisdiction.

It's just more evidence that Israel's strict Orthodox minority exercises too much sway over the majority, Jewish and not.

The purpose of this study was to determine the immediate effects of Pilates exercises on postural sway and dynamic balance of young individuals with non-specific low back pain.