Sentence examples for wield that authority from inspiring English sources

Arizona lawmakers asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether the U.S. Constitution reserves the power of redistricting solely for elected state lawmakers, or whether unelected citizen commissions may also wield that authority.

It's intimidating: That authority that I wielded at 21 I don't even wield now.

Deng Xiaoping, then paramount leader, anointed Hu as Jiang Zemin's successor as general secretary, but – by design – no one wields that kind of authority within the party these days.

The EU must wield that influence.

How do you even wield that?

The nature of tragedy has been argued over at least from the time of Aristotle's words on the subject in his fragmentary "Poetics" (late fourth century B.C ., a work that wielded great authority after its rediscovery in the late 15th century, though there had been much speculation even before that.

Who wields that kind of power now?

The mayor's power derives from being the senior elected official in the city and his role as chairman of the City Council, the body that wields ultimately authority over municipal affairs.

The patron may wield authority that the client may seek to tap into to access what he or she perceives as desirable.

While not a significant admission of liability, it showed that the S.E.C. could wield its authority to extract at least a modest concession in a settlement.

But unlike the protests in other countries in the region, the evolving Palestinian demonstrations have so far been hampered by confusion over whom, or what, to protest against — the Palestinian leadership that wields limited authority in the West Bank, or the Israelis who occupy the territory.