Sentence examples for potential sway from inspiring English sources

Underscoring the potential sway of the Suburban Caucus is the bare majority that the Democrats won in the Senate, with 32 seats to 30 for the Republicans.

My pet fantasy, perhaps because I work for a British organisation, is that a small third party could gain enough votes in Congress and potential sway in presidential elections to force a new type of coalition building, more akin to a parliamentary system or pre-Civil War America.

During the presidential campaign, Democrats were alive to country's potential to sway sceptical rural voters and made their own efforts to woo Nashville.

Legal analysts said the brief had the potential to sway conservative justices as much for the prominent names attached to it as for its legal arguments.

As Obama and his wife Michelle have implored voters while campaigning for Clinton across the country: just two votes per precinct hold the potential to sway the election away from Democrats.

Some people saw politics, too, in the decision not to reopen the police investigation, because the newspapers, with millions of readers, wield enormous power, including the potential to sway general elections.

With their leader back, the Cambodia National Rescue party has a renewed fervour, promising free healthcare, education and pensioner rights; an increase in factory and civil servant wages; an end to illegal land grabs and forced evictions; and lowered prices for rice, electricity and petrol – incentives that have the potential to sway a huge chunk of the 9 million voters.

"The message to young voters is that they have a lot of potential to sway outcomes here.

Do you think the meaning behind word choice and the way the information is presented in this project has the potential to sway voters?

WASHINGTON -- Turkey, with its resources, geographic position and potential regional sway, is uniquely suited to be the West's key partner against the Islamic State.

If these voters are holding their ballots because they have yet to come to a decision on who to vote for, the Romney campaign cannot ignore the potential to sway some of these voters into voting for their candidate.