Sentence examples for previously held sway from inspiring English sources
Encouragingly, there are now 400 players aged between 18 and 21 attached to five different centres of excellence in Argentina, where amateurism has previously held sway.
It will still be a big test of his popularity, especially in eastern Baghdad and areas of the south where his militias previously held sway.
It challenged the tenets of structuralism, which had previously held sway over the interpretation of language and texts in the humanities and the study of economies and cultures in the social sciences.
It was a giant boost to the cause of Arab nationalism and a blow to the cosy Greco-Turkish condominium which had previously held sway over much of the eastern Church and its holiest sites.
It's hard to generalize about any historical moment, but in the intellectual journals of the era, some central themes emerge: a debate over the merits of the Beat movement, and the attempt by some influential critics to preserve the quickly dissolving distinctions among highbrow, middlebrow and lowbrow culture that had previously held sway.
The musicians decamped to the nearby Richmond Athletic Club, where trad bands had previously held sway, and spent several months establishing themselves as the first among equals of the new wave of rhythm and blues groups arising from the rich alluvium of the Thames Delta: the Yardbirds, the Downliners Sect, the Pretty Things.
On 1 August, the Gardai smashed in his door, seized his computer equipment and took away the man reputed to be one of the most important men on the so-called Darknet, a protected sub-layer of the internet inaccessible to normal search engines where national laws have previously held little sway.
Yet randomness held sway.
In city politics, the Democrats held sway.
Multicolored street-level distractions instead held sway.
