Sentence examples for wield against from inspiring English sources

"I'm disappointed it's become a much easier device for teams to wield against players.

The deadline was unrealistic, and it gave Dubinsky a cudgel to wield against the company.

The executions are a reminder of the power the regime is prepared to wield against its enemies.

Apart from anything else, they are one of the few diplomatic threats, short of war, that the democracies can wield against the Saddams and Milosevics of this world.

Software patents are the one weapon that penniless inventors and small companies wield against the Tyrannosaurus rexes that dominate the industry.

Considering all the vulnerabilities Democratic incumbents face in this election, it is an unusual political cudgel for him to wield against the congresswoman, whose voting record has been praised by the staunchly pro-Israel American Israel Political Action Committee.

The attitudes were not just wielded against one another.

At the time Hirschman was interested in the considerable leverage Germany had wielded against smaller nations.

For a few appalling minutes, the vengeance was turned around, and wielded against the laughers.

Still, Tézenas's images belie the simple moralizing that's often wielded against disaster tourism.

He is uneasy about his case being wielded against Turkish aspirations to join the EU.