Sentence examples for the sway of groups from inspiring English sources

Technical Univ is currently under the sway of groups known as Red Cells & they elected Wittkowsky as president.

A spate of recent arrests and terrorism warnings in Europe and Afghanistan has underscored the risk that a small number of German citizens are under the sway of terrorist groups determined to stage new attacks, either in Germany or elsewhere in Europe.

Yet much of this land is now under the sway of Al Qaeda-affiliated groups or other extremist Sunni Islamist factions disavowed by the United States and its allies.

Mrs. Kirchner's ambitions of breaking up Grupo Clarín reflect the festering official resentment over the sway of the group, which has evolved over the decades from a newspaper on the brink of bankruptcy into a sprawling media giant at times publicly despised by presidents who have had to reckon with Clarín's power to shape public opinion.

It is under the sway of an armed group of violent Shiite students in engineering, literature, law and other disciplines; faculty members; and campus security guards.

At the same time, Chilpancingo — the capital city of 187,000, on the highway between Mexico City and Acapulco — had fallen under the sway of a criminal group called Los Rojos, a spinoff of the once-powerful Beltran Leyva cartel.

While violence has fallen off in western and central Iraq, Mosul and other parts of northern Iraq remain volatile, and many areas still are under the sway of extremist Sunni militant groups like Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, a homegrown insurgent group that American intelligence agencies say has foreign leadership.

"At McLean," Beam writes, she "came under the sway of the Christian revival group the Way...

In addition to grappling with inflation and currency controls aimed at curbing capital flight, Mr. Macri will now face the challenge of governing with much of his opposition under the sway of Peronism, the ideologically diverse political grouping that has dominated Argentine politics for decades.

But there is a more important reason for the Republicans' woes: their elected representatives are bonkers.In the 1970s the state party came under the sway of an anti-tax, anti-big government group known as the "House crazies".

All are members of Redpeace, "an angry Greenpeace breakaway group," and under the sway of a charismatic but very likely insane former pig farmer named Henry, who also happens to be the son of Frances' ex-husband Karl and the woman he divorced Frances to marry.