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There were no obvious leaders; no single ideology or organization held sway over the crowd.

Many millions have been spent on television ads in North Carolina, as groups on the right and left try to sway the electorate.

Those groups were eager to get their hands on anyone who could be used for ransom or political sway.

None of these studies, campaigns, or assertions should be enough to sway public opinion towards or against pot.

You have to sway from one foot to another to keep them from staking their claim.

Vicars' wives had come and gone, but all had submitted, some after a brief struggle, to old Mrs. Wurzel's sway.

He rules with a gentler sway than many who are accustomed to other methods of command would believe possible.

His brain—the part where human reasoning holds normal sway—was dominated by the purely primitive instinct of flight.

Shakespeare tells us that mercy 'is mightiest in the mightiest,' and is 'above this sceptred sway'; Merch.

The mob now ruled with undisputed sway in both legislative and executive halls.