Sentence examples for had been wielded from inspiring English sources

Mr. McMahon testified that the guitar was a real fake but that it had been wielded improperly by Debra.

If the far-reaching powers given to the new council had been wielded as the report recommended, Lloyd's would have avoided many of its later troubles.

A dozen years ago, Dallaire said, he saw a street vendor in Sierra Leone raise a machete to chop a coconut and "went absolutely [berserk]" at the sight of the weapon that had been wielded with such efficiency in the massacre of more than 800,000 people in only 100 days.

Within 12 months of that happening, 16-year-old Rigoberto Barrios had also been shot – in the four days it took for him to die from his wounds, he claimed the gun had been wielded by a policeman.

Within 12 months of that happening, 16-year-old Rigoberto Barrios had also been shot in the four days it took for him to die from his wounds, he claimed the gun had been wielded by a policeman.

According to the police, the man had been wielding a knife and threatening them.

It's as if the American founding fathers had been wielding Louisville Sluggers".

Police have said that Mr McDonald refused to comply with orders to drop a knife he had been wielding.

Friends and neighbours in Gorton, Manchester, disputed claims that Jordan Begley, 23, had been wielding a knife shortly before he collapsed and suffered a "medical episode" following a domestic dispute.

Earlier this week, the White House revised its account of the killing of Osama bin Laden, explaining that the Al Qaeda leader was unarmed at the time of his death, contrary to earlier official declarations that he had been wielding a weapon.

It's as if the American founding fathers had been wielding Louisville Sluggers".Until Fidel Castro nationalised his favourite sport and cut off the flow of Cuban players abroad in 1961, his country was the unquestioned powerhouse of baseball outside America, and accounted for two-thirds of the Latinos in Major League Baseball (MLB).