Sentence examples for might wield from inspiring English sources

Still, civil libertarians increasingly worry about how law enforcement might wield its new powers.

Robert K. Steel leans forward, speaking in a rapid, excitable burst about the powers that a superregulator might wield over Wall Street one day.

The digital age has thrown down the gauntlet to all who might wield something as innocuous as a cellphone and let the world see for itself.

He may drive a hard bargain but he gives away powers only once – powers that the beneficiaries might wield for generations.

He had revealed a naivety in failing to foresee how the prime minister might wield the veto in the late-night talks in Brussels.

There is disagreement over how much influence Mr. Bloomberg, an independent, might wield in the national debate over immigration, given the Republicans' takeover of the House and their chilliness to any thaw in immigration policy.

From a lesser position in the government or the party, Mr Ozawa might conceivably wield greater clout than the gentle Mr Okada.

Even those who criticise her might sometimes wield an angled or hovering plane that wouldn't be there if it were not for Hadid.

A couple of years ago, Erykah Badu's highly politicised psychedelic-soul opus New Amerykah Part One (4th World Order) raised hopes that the "conscious" arm of modern American R&B/hip-hop/ urban music might yet wield a revitalised power to offset that scene's depressingly negative tendencies.

And a bit like the Lib Dems prior to 2010, their growing membership and electoral support is beginning to raise the possibility that they might even wield some power after the election.

Our public services, even vital ones like the subway, work badly because they operate less for the convenience of their users than for the sake of their unionized, overpaid employees, now not so much public servants as the public's masters, through the vast political might they wield over so powerful a government.