Sentences with phrase «hold sway»

In an era when artistic developments no longer proceed via tidy movements, when narratives of progress no longer hold sway, when the art world has not one centre but many, Defining Contemporary Art provides the reader with the essential materials to compose a picture of the most vital period in art: our own.

With national pioneers of art and culture that hold sway over important media and mediums coming together to celebrate open and diverse sexualities, the signals of a main stream shift are well underway.

Normally at this time of year, high pressure begins to hold sway in the eastern Pacific.

While its Mediterranean climate has made it a popular beach vacation destination, the interior is a green oasis where old - world ways still hold sway.

The same laws of natural progression hold sway in the pet marketplace.

Gabriel, Director of the University of Southern California Lusk Center for Real Estate, explained in the Alliance white paper entitled Mortgage Finance Innovation and the Achievement of Homeownership: The Role of the Fixed - Rate Mortgage how the fixed - rate mortgage continues to hold sway over adjustable rate mortgages.

Authors really hold no sway over the distribution process.

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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.

And if it is marriage, be sure: you may have what girls you like in the field, but you will bring none home, for only I will hold sway in your halls.»

As the three main characters approach the burial day of the Unknown Soldier, they are forced to assess - as people who never saw battle but nonetheless suffered - how they will recover from a trauma that continues to hold sway over their lives.

Petty tyrants often hold sway and the Dunning Kruger Effect can demonstrate itself on a regular -LSB-...]

Not surprisingly, it is the preceding Android version — Jelly Bean that continues to hold the sway with about 62 percent adoption.

While sedans hold sway in the U.S. and sell reasonably well here, the hatch remains...

He continued to hold sway over the car line until the mid-1970s, when he left Ford and went to the Chrysler Corporation.

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.

Millions of students across the globe have taken the mighty help of our best essay writing service got hold sway over good grades and prospective future.

Conservatives advocate to keep community college unaffordable There are a lot of troubling policies that hold sway in the North Carolina education world these days.

Pursuing reforms inconceivable in big cities where unions hold sway, Fagen and the board have sidelined the local teachers» union and charged forward.

New York City private schools and New England prep schools continue to hold sway — Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., is a virtual factory, sending 19 kids to Harvard this fall — but these institutions are seeing some new competition from schools overseas...

«New York City private schools and New England prep schools continue to hold sway,... but these institutions are seeing some new competition from schools overseas and public...

But by focusing instead on the hard - nosed journalism that broke the story, McCarthy has crafted a bracingly powerful film about the institutions that hold sway in our society, the need for a free press to hold them accountable, and the pervasive sense of guilt that can get in the way.

He drinks too much, passes out on the floor of his bedroom surrounded by papers (as well as an empty tumbler and an ashtray with one of his trademark cigars), and erupts in fits of rage against the smallest transgression from one of his underlings (Because he can't hold sway over the men of power whom he sees as his equals, he instead rails against his personal secretary, played by Ella Purnell, for single - spacing a letter).

The two veterans find that they have much in common, including being fed up with the backwards attitudes that hold sway in Mississippi — attitudes that ultimately put their friendship, and both families, to the most extreme test imaginable.

David Lynch's films often dimly hint at the clandestine powers that control things: networks of organized crime, pornography rings, supernatural bureaucracies that hold sway from behind curtains or inside shadowy, Mabuse - like glass chambers and anterooms.

Ghosts and mythical beings hold sway over human action.

A group of deeply unlikeable American soldiers who've bonded through presumably years of shouting macho stuff at each other while wearing desert camouflage are dispatched on a rescue mission into territory in which the alien monster thingies hold sway.

«In the movie business, a good ending must sometimes hold sway over the truth.»

Or do DVD and Blu - ray discs still hold sway?

Since classical times, lavender has been one of the most popular perfumes in the Western world, and it continues to hold sway today in several beauty industries.

Superfluids don't exist in the everyday world — it's too warm for the necessary quantum effects to hold sway.

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

But does this DNA hold any sway over us?

Two spending panels in the U.S. House of Representatives that hold sway over large chunks of federal research spending will have new chairs when the 114th Congress convenes in January.

► On Thursday, new chairs for two House of Representatives spending panels that «hold sway over large chunks of federal research spending» were announced.

That means that the Southern Hemisphere glaciers kept flowing after the end of the cold snap, implying that the Younger Dryas did not hold sway there.

As the game continued, Nowak saw that even though Generous Tit for Tat was a long - lived strategy, it didn't hold sway forever.

James Binney at the University of Oxford says some sort of MOND - like behaviour may apply within galaxies while on larger scales, as in galactic clusters, dark matter would hold sway.

The bigger challenge is in the Assembly, where New York City Democrats hold sway.

In yet another reminder of the mayor's lesser reputation in the eyes of the Senate — where Long Island and upstate Republicans hold sway, and have been offended by efforts to oust them — New York City was forced to delay enacting a five - cent fee on plastic bags, a setback for the mayor and the City Council on a seemingly local concern but one with national political appeal.

Maier said that Heastie has been talking the talk of a tenants» rights advocate and advocates are cautiously optimistic, but it's too early to tell if Heastie can be hold sway on the issue.

The society has become crime - infested; kidnapping has become the country's fastest growing and most profitable business; banditry has grown also and armed gangs hold sway in parts of many cities across the country.

He is relieving Hon Mohammed Awwal who would now hold sway at the Ministry of Transportation.

Reichberg and the cooperating witness spent «well over $ 100,000» in gifts that served as bribes, Bharara said, so that they could hold sway with police — which they used to get friends and themselves out of traffic tickets, to arrange for police presence at religious sites and events, to get good seats at parades and other events, to get lights - and - sirens escorts to the airport, and even to close down a lane of the Lincoln Tunnel so a visiting businessman could breeze through without traffic.

Opposing interest groups including existing taxi companies hold sway there.

Because there are areas in which the nationally minority party can hold sway, there is a means of maintaining unity, even within the minority.

Until then however, the murky, non-legal world that Guantanamo inhabits will hold sway over the entire affair.

Brooklynites have a poor record of running in the Staten Island - dominated district, where Democrats outnumber Republicans but home - owning conservatives still hold sway.

Conservative and centre - right narratives hold sway.

Andrew Cohen, who has never run for office before, has apparently worked nicely with the powerful Benjamin Franklin Reform Democratic Club, from which Senator Jeffrey Klein and Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz hold sway over Riverdale and Kingsbridge.