Sentence examples for held in sway from inspiring English sources

Must we still be held in sway to Campbell's tasteless, cream-of-whatever salt bombs?

Its people are diseased and famished, held in sway through the rationing of water, which Joe doles out from a waterfall shaped like a horse-toothed skull.

In the mid 20th century, when Freudian theory held sway in academic medicine, CD, UC and peptic ulcer were all thought to be psychosomatic illnesses.

In the early 20th century Motion Picture Patents Co. held immense sway in the film business until it was busted up by antitrust lawyers.

Mr. Abbas has since governed only in parts of the West Bank, and Hamas has held sway in Gaza.

The Norse held sway in the Small Isles from 833 until the Treaty of Perth in 1266.

In the mid-1040s three claimants to the throne of St. Peter held sway in central Italy.

Assorted Fiats held sway in Italy.

Until about 1950 this Davisian view held sway in geomorphology.

For a brief period, COIN held sway in Washington.

Only a year ago, pessimists held sway in Japan, with naysayers exceeding optimists by 29 percentage points.