Sentence examples for sway of men from inspiring English sources

Could he distance himself from the sway of men like Tinubu, appoint competent technocrats, and prevent elected officials from enriching themselves on the job?

Millions of impoverished people are embittered that instead of experiencing the promised market economy and democracy, their newly independent states fell under the sway of men -- many, like Mr. Kuchma, former Communist bosses -- who have attained enormous power and wealth at the expense of national prosperity.

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

All the panning critics in the world aren't going to sway audiences' appreciation of Man of Steel, and that's a good thing.

From the back of the women's section I watched a sea of swaying men in black davening and singing as the sun climbed the Temple Mount, softly illuminating the Kotel and the gold and silver orbs of the Dome of the Rock and Al Aksa Mosque.

I. E.," as an emotionally abandoned suburban teenager who falls under the sway of a predatory older man, he has contributed solid supporting work in nine feature films.

Two of these misinterpretations, often originating with the Nizārīs' enemies, were that the Nizārīs were killers under the sway of the mysterious "old man of the mountain" and that they used hashish in order to induce visions of paradise before setting out to face martyrdom.

I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destinies of man".

While late diners eat blintzes and potato pirogen, dozens of swaying men in homburgs, fedoras, baseball caps or yarmulkes crowd a 20-foot-long corridor and side room normally used for preparing takeout foods.

Under the sway of their opium habits, both men resorted to deception and the deflection of responsibility.

The sway of Hawkwind's hurdy-gurdy man established itself at the start, commanding the rhythm and taking a crisp but spectral lead break on "You'd Better Believe It".