Sentence examples for held sway at from inspiring English sources
The new chief of one of the world's largest music companies, Warner Music Group (1999 sales: $3.8 billion), held sway at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles.
Different rules held sway at my grandparents' homes.
Matisse was at home at the couple's flat, whereas Picasso held sway at Rue de Fleurus.
Although Clement Greenberg's belief in art for art's sake held sway at the time, Mr. Edwards was unconvinced.
In recent weeks, acts including Diddy, Danity Kane and Ludacris briefly held sway at No. 1 before plummeting.
The days of excess, when young traders held sway at the steakhouses and nightclubs downtown, celebrating their trading success while California suffered, seem long gone.
On the back of economic collapse, the anti-immigrant, neo-fascist Golden Dawn has emerged, and held sway, as the third-biggest political force.
Jews, Muslims and Christians have all held sway here at different times, and all have formed visceral, often exclusionist links to the place.
US military officials have at times held sway, but never at the level enjoyed by the formidable Iranian who had been both kingmaker and overlord throughout that time and was about to step to the fore again.
As in the Senate, moderate Republicans held sway for years at the Supreme Court, but that species has vanished on both sides of First Street.
"Xinjiang has been an inalienable part of the territory of China," it asserts, implying that Beijing or Xian or some other imperial capital has for time immemorial held sway over this land at the crossroads of Asian civilizations.
