Sentences with phrase «hold more sway»

«The board's action shows that proponents of «creationism» still hold more sway than the testimony of numerous educators, scientists, and professors,» said Anthony T. Podesta, president of pfaw

The State Assembly, where teachers union resisting the proposal hold more sway, did not include any such changes.

With less than a month until the presidential election, what was said at this year's Pulpit Freedom Sunday could hold more sway than in previous years.

«As the conscious and legally competent entity in the conception set - up, it's the woman's say that counts, and even the most terrible reason for having an abortion holds more sway than the best imaginable reason for compelling a woman to carry to term.»

Thinking about abstraction's continued relevance may require me to at least mention Zombie Formalism, («Formalism because this art involves a straightforward, reductive, essentialist method of making a painting and Zombie because it brings back to life the discarded aesthetics of Clement Greenberg»), if only to suggest that the term, coined by artist - critic Walter Robinson, quoted in brackets above, seems to refer more to the market than to the art and may appear more pertinent in the USA than in the UK where alternative modernisms have sometimes held more sway than the version associated with Greenberg and Fried.

I just think that the fear of the courts holds more sway for those with poor moral standards and a lack of concern for prescribed ethical rules as far as retribution is concerned, than dealing with a potentially more understanding in - house organization (from the defendant's point of view, not mine).

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How does this mysterious three - pound organ called the brain hold such sway over the matters of life, death, consciousness, perception, sleep and so much more?

The more than 85,000 attendees are getting ready to hear keynotes from two Americans who hold impressive sway over the future of the mobile industry: Facebook (FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg and U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler.

But others were less sure, noting that the three companies — which, combined, employ more than one million people — might still hold little sway over the largest insurers and pharmacy benefit managers, who oversee the benefits of tens of millions of Americans.

Itâ $ ™ s remarkable that this event still holds such sway over the popular imagination despite other more recent instances of hyperinflation.

It expresses his sense of dependence not only within the visible world, but more especially on those forces which hold sway beyond the confines of the known.

Every since mankind has been as the Apostle described us in his epistle (Again, 2 nd Timothy 3:1 - 5; see also what Jesus said in Mark 7:20 - 23), the only thing that has «advanced «at our hands is our architecture, our technology, and our search for medicinal cures for what ails us.No one is denying that we've done tremendous good with these various advances, but we've also done awful, vicious, horrendous atrocities and brutalities as well.I've heard it quoted that out of all the centuries, millennia that we've considered ourselves «civilized», we've had only a few hundred years where something approximating peace has held sway among us.So again, I'm all world seeking to «make the world a better place», as it were; I just believe that mankind in his present moral, ethical, and spiritual configuration is capable of doing so.We can always enhance out technological prowess, improve our architechural designs, and make our drugs more powerful, but what about our hearts?

The more reasonable members of the GOP are fed up with the Tea Partiers and Creationists, and are going to make a move to take back control of their party from the numbskulls who have held sway for a decade now.

The more holding, carrying, rocking, swaying, swinging, caressing, stroking, hugging and game playing we do, the more we provide the necessary sensory stimulation for brain growth and the vital elements that promote a strong parent child bond.

What is at stake here is her unique account of modernity — that, instead of making man more individualistic and society more open, the modern, social sphere has held sway to the point of trampling upon all other spaces that locals hold dear.

You are just waking up to realise that SE is more commercially viable but didn't think that way when GEJ and Iweala held sway for 6 years plus.

Dogara stated that the period PDP held sway, the more money spent on the Power sector the more darkness Nigerians experienced.

Smith, the new Senate majority leader, has pledged to delegate more power to rank - and - file lawmakers in Albany, and not to hold complete sway over what makes it to the floor of the Senate.

Currently, Democratic challenger Al Franken holds a slight lead of about 50 votes over Republican incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman, but this number does not reflect what could be more than a thousand improperly rejected absentee ballots still to be tallied, which would sway results.

Even when a story is more nuanced, the headline may still hold sway in people's minds.

Those methods held sway for more than a decade.

When Schultz locates her as property of Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), he and Django offer up a ruse to get Candie's attention and make their way into the depths of Candyland, the plantation where Cavil holds sway over numerous slaves, none more visible than Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), an ancient house slave afforded the opportunity to speak freely.

But if you're still not tempted, than feel free to hold out, because if playing dress up with Fire Emblem Warriors doesn't sway you, then maybe playing dress - up with Super Mario Odyssey is more your style!

Though Jacob's Ladder is still one of the more underrated films on this list, it's still holds a huge sway on the horror genre, having inspired the Silent Hill game franchise, American Horror Story: Asylum, and more.

Such a shift would move schools away from what educators sometimes refer to as the «industrial model» of education that held sway in the 19th and 20th centuries to a model geared towards the more flexible work environments of the 21st century, proponents argue.

As with the new Levante SUV, which has rocketed out of showrooms, Maserati is leaning on it's illustrious badge with the Ghibli, trying to expand its brand into more lucrative market sectors where key competitors like BMW and Mercedes - Benz hold sway.

The 2019 Ram 1500 has more than 100 safety and security features, including Adaptive Cruise Control with Stop, Go and Hold, Forward Collision Warning - Plus, Ready Alert Braking, Trailer - sway Damping Control, LaneSense Lane Departure Warning - Plus, ParkSense Parallel / Perpendicular Park, and Hill - start Assist.

, with increased fuel economy (an estimated 4 percent)- Best - in - class performance: 0 - 60 mph in under 7 seconds - New interiors with premium seating, soft - touch materials, redesigned controls, floor console with shifter, and nearly double the storage options - More than 35 new or improved features - Industry - first RamBox cargo management system (crew cab) includes versatile, weatherproof, lockable, illuminated and drainable storage bins built into bed rails (a total of 8.6 cubic feet of space); pickup bed divider / 2 - foot bed extender; and cargo rail system with four sliding, adjustable cleats - RamBox bins hold up to 10 cases of 12 - ounce beverages, or other gear for work or leisure - First - in - segment «store in the floor» storage bins with removable liners, big enough for ten 12 - ounce beverages and ice - First - in - segment heated and ventilated front seats - Heated rear seats also available - Heated steering wheel a first for any Dodge vehicle - First - in - segment coil - spring, multilink rear suspension fitted to a solid rear axle provides ride and handling capabilities unexpected in a pickup truck - First - in - segment live SIRIUS Backseat TV ™ - First - in - segment surround - sound audio system - More than 30 safety features, including standard four - wheel Anti-lock Brake System and Electronic Stability Program with Hill Start Assist and Trailer Sway Control - All - new 2009 Dodge Ram to arrive this fall - Light - duty diesel to arrive after 2009; two - mode hybrid powertrain to be offered in 2010 model year

As one of the leaders in curricular publishing, too, Scholastic's release of Wilhelm and Smith's title will hopefully hold some level of sway over administrative decision making at the local and state government school boards, allowing more time during the school day to be spent on individualized reading for pleasure rather than simply reading for the sake of the curriculum.

As a young man, delving into Schwartz's life with only a partial idea of what he was doing, Atlas was nonetheless able to meet many of his fast - vanishing heroes from the New York literary world who had inspired him to become a critic in the first place: Philip Rahv, Dwight Macdonald, Alfred Kazin — giants who held sway over American culture in a bygone, arguably more literate age.

For those who aren't wedded to Amazon's ecosystem, though, the Google Nexus 7 keeps its place at the top among compact Android tablets, and the iPad Minis hold sway as the only compact tablets for iOS, at $ 160 more for an equivalent Retina display model or an extra $ 70 for the basic, much - lower - res 2012 iPad Mini.

But the more good wishes I received, the more the idea of keeping the car held sway.

Killstreaks now hold far too much sway over the outcome of a match, and more often than not the final kill cam will show someone being gunned down by an automated helicopter or bombed by a jet.

The character animations are powerful and defined, but still hold subtle aspects, like the Monk's robe swaying while he runs, that made me sit back appreciate this game so much more.

But if you're still not tempted, than feel free to hold out, because if playing dress up with Fire Emblem Warriors doesn't sway you, then maybe playing dress - up with Super Mario Odyssey is more your style!

If Puritanism held little sway over the cosmopolitan cultural scene of San Francisco, where Diebenkorn adopted the progressive style of Abstract Expressionism, his later figures, isolated with their drinks in front of abstracted spaces, still respond more to Hopper's undertones of loneliness than to Matisse's Joy of Life (1905 — 06)(for which a study would also have been on view at the Steins»).

Pop holds sway, but the more austere, formalist, but secretly heartfelt strain of postwar American art is not ignored.

The exhibition will feature sixty - five works in painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking juxtaposed in ways that elucidate how artists developed qualified degrees of reality where the imagination held more or less sway, depending on intention and influence.

The ones who were wrong had to accept that, or at least accept that the consensus held sway until such time as they had more evidence at their disposal it may be wrong.

However, I am sure in due course you will manage to rise once more to 2nd place, but I think first place eludes you whilst Willard holds sway.

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Holding out the promise of no problems for a year alone, much less a decade, should sway more lawyers over to the Mac platform.

During that time, Bitcoin's sway of the market reached $ 125 bln of the $ 200 bln, and it was this more than 60 percent hold of the market that managed to keep the cryptocurrency ecosystem above $ 200 bln.