Sentence examples for wielded immense power from inspiring English sources
Historically, the military has wielded immense power in Turkey.
Mr. Musharraf took to power in 1999 after a bloodless coup and wielded immense power until 2007, when his rule began to crumble.
Northerners dominate Nigeria's military, and wielded immense power during the 15 years of army rule, which ended last year with Mr. Obasanjo's election.
The military, together with the judiciary and state bureaucracy, wielded immense power, guarding Turkish democracy "as if the country was a perpetually immature child," said Halil Berktay, a history professor at Sabanci University in Istanbul.
It was a rare bit of good news for a man who once wielded immense power but who has suffered multiple humiliations since returning from self-exile to Pakistan in March.
In zooming in on the time of Haremhab, the military chief who wielded immense power before ruling as a pharaoh from around 1316 to 1302 B.C., Ms. Arnold's exhibition brings out an aspect of Egyptian art that has virtually gone unnoticed.
Doctors wield immense power.
God wields immense power.
This elite wields immense power, says Carswell.
Court clerks wield immense power, inching forward a paper flow that would otherwise be entirely stagnant.
They may well peddle "pedestrian beers", but those conglomerates will continue to wield immense power with pubs and retailers.
