Sentence examples for had wielded from inspiring English sources

And he was accustomed to the kind of authority that he had wielded as Treasury Secretary.

At the time Hirschman was interested in the considerable leverage Germany had wielded against smaller nations.

Castelli altered a situation in which critics and curators had wielded guiding authority.

It turned out Mr Yamamoto had wielded the bottle and ordered the three wrestlers to inflict more punishment.

Abbott remained loyal to Credlin despite the criticism, dismissing concerns that she had wielded too much power.

When the police arrived, they learned that the young man who had wielded the bottle was the son of a high Communist Party official.

The pope, fumed Syria's Friday preachers, was a "neo-crusader", wielding calls for dialogue where his predecessors had wielded the sword.

The book includes a portrait of Mr. Johnson during his time as vice president, when the power he had wielded as a legislator was sorely missed.

He had wielded greater power than the US has ever conceded to a national leader, or is ever likely to again.

As many as 60 people were reported to have been at the scene, but not one of them would say who had wielded the weapons.

The soft-spoken and unassuming Justice Powell had wielded great power on the nation's highest court because his moderate views placed him at its ideological center.