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But he continued to wield a strong influence when the fighter returned to England to turn professional the following year.

Because it's one of the first major film prizes announced each year, the NBR's awards wield a strong, if sometimes spotty, hand in forecasting the Oscars.

These "unseen parts" wield a strong erotic undertow among 1) Muslim males who've never seen pictures of an unseen part and 2) Western males who've never seen Muslim unseen parts.

Hospitals have merged in many cities and wield a stronger hand in payment negotiations with insurers.

Hairston, 31, wields a strong bat but is a perennial part-timer.

Mr. Allbaugh has spent almost all of the last four weeks in Florida, wielding a strong hand over the legal and political operation there.

In partnership with his closest friend Daniella Parmar, he wielded a strong influence over Bowie's style choices, producing the jackets, trousers, shirts, ties and suits in shiny and bright materials which would mint his formal approach to "glam".

He is also keen to demonstrate that the intelligence agency, which has a reputation for wielding a strong hand at home, is today a less secretive, more modern outfit.

Although the world has now long left the Cold War period behind, the Cold War situation of tension in the Korean peninsula continues and anticommunism still wields a strong influence.

With all the talk about whether the S.E.C. has enough material resources to pursue corporate malfeasance -- the agency's budget is being increased significantly -- it was easy in the Harvey Pitt era to forget that a strong S.E.C. chairman can wield a great deal of moral authority.

5. Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins) Yes, Katniss is strong, brave and can wield a bow and arrow like nobody else.