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Ultimately, Tehran has managed to leverage its position to the point where it could wield influence across the Shiite/Sunni divide by championing, indeed provoking, the largely Sunni Hamas movement in Gaza against Israel.

At the same time it could wield political authority.

Moscow preferred bilateral negotiations in which it could wield bigger influence.

And it could wield more influence in international relations than at any time in its history.

The Politico's Jeanne Cummings examines what the "sisterhood" means for Senator Clinton and how it could wield influence going forward.

Many people assume America would lose little from Doha's demise, in part because it could wield power in regional deals.Yet the opposite may prove true.

It was a Sisyphean task: the stove ate the wood as fast as I could wield the axe.

He recalls thinking, "I could wield Anonymous against this tiny little city government and they would just be fucking wrecked.

"It's a sad reflection on the state of Indian politics that a man like him could wield so much clout," said Prakash Singh, who once commanded the state police in Uttar Pradesh.

While not a significant admission of liability, it showed that the S.E.C. could wield its authority to extract at least a modest concession in a settlement.

But experts in biological weapons said the manifesto showed no evidence that Anders Behring Breivik had actually obtained the lethal germ or could wield it as a weapon.