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In terms of international monetary systems, too, Keynesianism held sway.
In almost every subgenre of heavy metal, synthesizers held sway.
In the end, Mr. Rodino's desire for consensus held sway.
Shiite clerics became powerful leaders and held sway over large militias.
The Lord held sway over Satan, so evil couldn't touch me.
Big Tech has held sway in Washington since the Clinton era.
There, Yahya Jammeh has held sway since a military coup in 1994.
Investors are drawing parallels with the 1980s, when similar policies held sway.
Russia once held sway in eastern Europe as the Soviet-era overlord.
The geographic area in which anti-choice politicians held sway also ballooned.
Yet those conservative governments were gone, and Moon and the liberals held sway.
Jurassic 23, Dilated Peoples, and The Beat Junkies held sway in the West.
This conclusion was largely based on abstract theory, but it held sway for decades.
Plus, it was the 1970s, so certain art styles and attitudes held sway there.
The authoritarian right has held sway since the Turkish republic was founded in 21970.
When I was in college, in the nineteen-eighties, the French Nietzsche held sway.
But Ms. Carter's lawyers say it was Mr. Roy who held sway over her.
Mr. Sharif and his younger brother Shehbaz Sharif have held sway there for decades.
Teachout was the favorite of the local progressives who held sway in the primary.
At the second warehouse, on the old Bethlehem Steel site, United Steelworkers held sway.
So far individualism has held sway, with farmers wanting to build their own distilleries.
Mr. Shanahan, the officials said, was not among the top authorities who held sway.
In the U.K., India, and Israel women have held sway for long periods of time.
But short-term considerations have held sway since Mr. Trump jabbed at OPEC in April.
Bundy didn't believe the federal government held sway over this property, or any land in Nevada.
But despite these invented fictions, the banalities of stars' real lives still held sway over fans.
Over his 30-year tenure, his views gradually held sway over a generation of legal operatives.
The industry held sway in statehouses and city halls, too, especially where brewing was big business.
Not so with America, where big tech has held sway in Washington since the Clinton era.
"Last year when the skeptics held sway, Tesla could rally on any good news," Cramer said.
The Urabeños are now aggressively consolidating their presence in areas where the FARC rebels once held sway.
The tradition held sway on these shores for generations, a ritualized affair that underscored hierarchies and borders.
At the time, the extremist group held sway over vast territory and was still on the march.
Wolverine embodies a bad-boy power fantasy that held sway over Marvel Comics in the 1980s and '90s.
Molly Worthen THE anti-gay ideology that has long held sway in American evangelicalism seems to be crumbling.
Before the peace agreement was signed late last year, the FARC held sway over large expanses of farmland.
One was the traditional, alliance-centered internationalism that had held sway, for example, under President George H.W. Bush.
In Chicago, state House Speaker Mike Madigan (D) has held sway over city and state politics for decades.
When the abolitionist movement first mobilized against slavery, the slave-holding states in America held sway in Washington.
This school — the "yigu," or "doubting antiquity" school — held sway in China until the Communist takeover in 1949.
It seemed clear from these cases that the physics of space still held sway well below the Karman line.
"Communist-infested New York" was how The News-Free Press described the city where The Times's overlords held sway.
The "Butskellite" consensus that had held sway since the second world war was consumed by stagflation and excessive wage demands.
I mean, you have basically a 223- or 43-year-long Reagan consensus that that held sway over this country.
The violence is typically concentrated in the favelas, the hilltop slums where heavily-armed drug gangs have long held sway.
The early murmurings of rock 'n' roll were distant stirrings on black R&B radio, and racial segregation held sway.
That renunciation had seemed irrevocable and nothing, over the years in which held sway, led me to doubt its finality.
The first, represented by Joe Keene, involves going back more forcefully to a past where oppressive power structures held sway.
The pop-opera born of the British invasion in the 1980s, whose legacy held sway despite the failure of many imitators.
For at least three years, ISIS has held sway over a vast expanse of area that bestrode both Iraq and Syria.
Creating software for quantum computers requires programmers to rethink basic principles that have held sway in "classical computing" for 75 years.
Trump campaigned on "draining the swamp," and his criticism of lawmakers' focus on the ethics office appears to have held sway.
If this logic held sway now, all of America's soldiers would have left Iraq at the first opportunity and stayed home.
The world in which the Chicago Tribune and LA Times held sway is gone, replaced by endless Facebook feeds, blogs, and Twitter .
The first is led by Atheel al-Nujaifi, Mosul's former governor, whose family has held sway in the city since Ottoman times.
They need to go, for the sake of just about everything—just look at 2017, one last time, where they held sway.
This account, likely apocryphal, has held sway over the reception of Western art since the onset of Neoclassicism in the 18th century.
Crowds sang the anthem of the Republic of Mahabad, the Kurdish state that briefly held sway in north-western Iran in 1946.
Temer's Brazil Democratic Movement party long held sway over key appointments in Brazil's largely state-run energy sector, including nuclear power plants.
His voice held sway, the villagers did as they were told, and three days later, some eight hundred of them were dead.
But for years, growing flocks of them have held sway in a section of Staten Island where every day is turkey day.
Of course, with the lights on or off, men held sway over their wives' bodies in a struggle that, astoundingly, continues now.
SINCE THE first wave of Bangladeshi migrants arrived in Britain in the 93s, foreign-born preachers have held sway in the community.
This land grab mentality has held sway with most of the SaaS businesses that go to market with a traditional enterprise sales force.
For ten of the 15 years before the last election in Delhi, in 2015, for instance, the Congress party held sway in both.
The eventual 4-4 vote meant that the decision against the plaintiffs issued by the liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held sway.
During the first years of the New Deal, the Bull Moose side held sway and even suspended many of the existing antitrust laws.
When the Nazis held sway in places like these, he reflected, "there were so many swastikas hanging that they covered all the beams."
Khalifa Hifter, based in Benghazi, has almost entirely cleared that city, the east's biggest, of the Islamic extremists who once held sway there.
She tried to steer clear of West Wing matters, which she saw as her husband's domain, though it often held sway over hers.
He kept his grip on power by adroitly mixing mafia-style punishment with tribal infighting, playing one group against another so he held sway.
The military, which has held sway over Algerian politics from behind the scenes for decades, is expected to help guide a potentially volatile transition.
It's a move sure to rile the ultraconservative clerics who have held sway in the kingdom, even if that sway appears to be waning.
The failure is a rarity in Japan where corporate boards traditionally endorse management, particularly at Seven & i, where Suzuki has held sway for decades.
In addition to WikiLeaks, the Russians made contact with Americans who held sway both in Republican circles and with Mr. Trump, the indictment says.
In empathetic yet unflinching prose respectful of younger readers, Beals depicts the nightmarish way the KKK held sway over the lives of black people.
American literature was still under the spell of Hemingway, Faulkner, Richard Wright; realism held sway, and there was little interest in play or fantasy.
Most of the world's best players still hail from Britain or its former colonies: where once the Pakistanis held sway, now the Egyptians do.
The former president's Brazil Democratic Movement party long held sway over key appointments in Brazil's largely state-run energy sector, including nuclear power plants.
That ideal emerged from a rockist idea of authenticity, a system of thought that held sway in music criticism from the '70s into the 2010s.
Investors often sell existing bonds to make way for new supply but on this occasion, the trade-war jitters held sway and pinned yields down.
Russia is incensed at such of show of force by its Cold War rival in formerly communist-ruled eastern Europe where it once held sway.
And since there was no moderating influence, no one to ease his mind and bask in the newfangled pleasures, his typical poor judgment held sway.
That concept of presumed electability, much maligned by candidates not named Biden or the other front-runners, nonetheless held sway among activists in both counties.
In Turkey, neo-Ottoman ambitions are emerging as the country seeks to enlarge its influence in Libya and everywhere else the sultans once held sway.
But Biden has maintained a frequent presence at high-dollar fundraising events and among the wealthy donors who have long held sway in presidential politics.
China's grand strategy today acknowledges that trade is a better weapon than the sword—just like the Pax Mongolica that then held sway across multicultural Eurasia.
Since then, the apparent Program And Control (PAC) Program experiment has recorded Stefan, payed people to be his family, and held sway over his every move.
Freudian theory still held sway in psychiatry and psychology departments across the country, and Dr. Gottesman's 1966 study of schizophrenia in twins immediately caused a stir.
Dr. Martin defended Amherst as a place where free speech and high standards still held sway, and said she had pushed back against protesters when necessary.
But the protocols and basic principles of trust that might have once held sway in cases of scientific uncertainty have been eroded by too many violations.
But nothing is normal about Gauff, the preternatural teenager who has held sway over the United States Open, just as she did at Wimbledon in July.
For much of the history of Latin America, media ownership has been concentrated in the hands of a few who generally held sway over public opinion.
This, in turn, will allow Putin to cement a toehold in the eastern Mediterranean, where the American Sixth fleet based in Naples has long held sway.
Traffickers from the powerful drug gang Comando Vermelho, or Red Command, have held sway in the area for many years, wielding more authority than the police.
On some of France's traffic roundabouts, where the Yellow Vests held sway for much of November and December, mock guillotines were erected with Mr. Macron's effigy.
The official rules are after all named for the Marquess of Queensbury, who held sway over the boxing landscape when the rules were first published in 1867.
Using a network of nonprofits and other donors, they had provided essential financial support for the political voices that have held sway in Republican politics since 2011.
He is probably not mincing, because to a substantial extent, a hyper-macho bruiser look has supplanted that of the dandies who held sway in recent seasons.
The center bloc, nicknamed the "centrão" or "big center," has held sway in Congress for years and flexed its muscles when ramming through Rousseff's impeachment in 2016.
As presenter Natalie Portman noted from the stage, an all-male field -- populated by old pros, like Steven Spielberg and Ridley Scott -- held sway at the Globes.
Mr. Cohn was among a handful of senior executives to have held sway at Goldman since before the financial crisis and is among the last to leave.
Might some of those concessions include a lightening up of the company's competitive advantages over the black car taxi system that's long held sway in that city?
Michelangelo had sculpted a nude Christ because, in 1514, "reverence for classical antiquity and the timeless beauty of the human body" still held sway, Professor Squarzina said.
As the city cracked down on the drug gangs that held sway there in the 1990s, crime plummeted, and the area began drawing professionals and young families.
The exit polls showed that he not only held to this base in the northern Hindi belt but also breached the east where regional groups traditionally held sway.
In 1971, early in the chief justiceship of Warren Burger, when liberal justices still held sway at the Supreme Court, the court decided a case called Bivens v.
Until the 1950s, the country saw strife between the spiritual authority of the Ibadi imams who dominated the interior and the sultans who held sway on the coast.
The post-Soviet titans of business have always held sway over state policy in Ukraine through, among other means, the figures known as the smotryaschi, or the watchers.
Voters in liberal democracies across the world have rejected rule by the political elite, who had until a few years ago held sway over the levers of power.
Police pushed drug gangs out of those favelas, where they held sway with impunity for decades, and then set up permanent posts in the communities for the first time.
His friend Lil B, spiritually at one with The Based God but not, in himself, The Based God, had held sway over the world of basketball for too long.
Two chants held sway: "Say it loud, say it clear, refugees are welcome here," which recalled the massive march held in London in 2015 to show solidarity with refugees.
The house is on CB Daniels Sr. Road, one of several named after two of the fishing clans that have held sway for decades in this small coastal town.
The battlegrounds were college campuses, Hollywood, the bedroom — anywhere that moral relativism, secularism and the general "culture of depravity," as dedicated warriors like Rush Limbaugh put it, held sway.
Keynesianism — in a nutshell, government investment in public goods increase demand and prosperity — held sway from the 1940s through the 1970s, the greatest period of economic growth in history.
The Senate was known as 'the world's greatest deliberative body,' a place where collegiality and compromise held sway and issues could be discussed rationally and agreements could be reached.
Intel is the world's biggest computer chipmaker and has been seeking to break into the market for automotive chips where rivals NXP, Renesas, Infineon and STMicroelectronics have long held sway.
In the 1980s she held sway in Soweto with the help of the Mandela United Football Club, "Winnie's boys", who hung around her house to carry out kidnappings and beatings.
Some media have said he was Riina's natural heir, but Sicilian prosecutors have denied he is the boss of bosses, saying he never held sway over the powerful Palermo clans.
Farther out, in Skeleton Canyon, a roadside monument marks the surrender of the great Apache warrior Geronimo in 1886 — a reminder of the Native Americans who once held sway here.
Both Iran and Iraq have Shiite majorities, and after the Americans overthrew Saddam Hussein, under whom the Sunni minority held sway in Iraq, Iran cultivated close ties with its neighbor.
A rarefied elite has always held sway over the competition, even if its identity has shifted over the years, mapping the ebb and flow of primacy among Europe's great domestic leagues.
The loss was a blow to a powerful industry group that has long held sway in Washington, and while other industries are rallying behind the trade deal, PhRMA finds itself alone.
In the middle of the 19th century, a generation after Waterloo, the classical ideal of warfare, seemingly epitomised by Napoleon but derived from the ancient Greeks and the Romans, still held sway.
The US held sway over the market for much of the twentieth century, accumulating the resource at the Federal Helium Reserve in Texas to supply upcoming fleets of airships in the 1920s.
The accusations against Mr. Keram were particularly troubling, painting a picture of a menacing figure who held sway over players' careers and lives, threatening them with ruin if they did not comply.
Until she took over the communications director role in an interim capacity, she was almost constantly by the president's side when he traveled, and she held sway over what interviews he gave.
The race to drive the jihadists out of eastern Syria, where they have held sway for three years, has gained new urgency as rival forces converge on ungoverned parts of the region.
As the Conservatives civil war over Brexit raged, a fragile ceasefire held sway in Labour's ranks, though with Britain's EU divorce now just 100 days away, that may be coming to an end.
The MQM has held sway over Karachi for years and law enforcement agencies, its opponents and many residents have accused it of racketeering, abduction, torture and murder in its bid to maintain power.
Political outsider Nayib Bukele was elected in February as El Salvador's next president, bringing an end to a two-party system that has held sway over the violence-plagued country for three decades.
The 40-page document says China is challenging the existing order in the region while also increasing its involvement and investment in Pacific island nations where New Zealand's influence has long held sway.
Instead, he called on a group of civilian economists, dubbed the "Chicago boys" because several had studied at the University of Chicago, where the libertarian economics of Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman held sway.
That is unlikely to prevent him retaining his seat in parliament this month, thanks to loyalty to a family name that has held sway over politics in this part of central Pakistan for generations.
The latest round of unrest started in 2014 amid angry protests by Houthis, a minority Shiite group that's long held sway in northern Yemen, but hasn't had much influence in the Sunni-led government.
His suicide, to avoid capture by American forces, marks the end of an era for IS. The group once held sway over millions of Syrians and Iraqis in an area the size of Britain.
As both political parties belatedly recognize the anxiety and deep-seated anger of blue-collar workers nationwide, the more-trade-is-good bipartisan consensus that has long held sway in Washington is being sundered.
For years, Richardson held sway over many important committees, and was an influential player in the league's latest labor deal, which came after the owners locked out the players for several months in 2011.
The rise of YouTube and Tumblr allowed trans people to become content creators on their own, cutting out the cis media gatekeepers that long held sway over how trans people were perceived within society.
Conte, already a favorite at the ground where two seasons ago Jose Mourinho held sway, is aiming to emulate Chelsea predecessor and compatriot Carlo Ancelotti by winning the double in his first year in charge.
"The SPD has held sway, as the SPD party conference demanded, in getting a significant additional provision for special hardship cases, beyond the 1,000 family members a month agreed in the exploratory talks," said Schulz.
If you know where to shop, you can probably go to the wealthiest districts of certain Western cities and procure objects from Mali, looted during the time when Mr Mahdi and his friends held sway.
Across the bay, in Preston, where Pinky and her sisters, DeeDee, Fritzie, and Betsy, shopped and socialized, was the regional headquarters of the United Fruit Company, whose colonial culture held sway over the whole province.
Meanwhile, Jamal Manning (Brian Tyree Henry) is running for alderman, hoping to unseat Jack Mulligan (Colin Farrell), whose family — led by his nasty racist patriarch father (Robert Duvall) — has long held sway over the ward.
The loss was a blow to a powerful industry group that has long held sway in Washington, and while other industries are rallying behind the trade deal, PhRMA finds itself relatively alone in opposing it.
The Soviet invasion dominated the 1980s, civil war followed, the hardline Islamist Taliban movement held sway for a few years before being ousted in a U.S.-led assault, followed by 18 more years of conflict.
That belief has long held sway at the University of Chicago, a bastion of free-market thinking, which helped make the word "antitrust" lose most of its meaning in America, not least with respect to technology.
It led to a sharp spike in the level of violence across the state from 22001 to 235, as well as spin off conflicts in other parts of the country where the two groups held sway.
But in the hours and days following Trump's announcement from a White House podium flanked by Christmas trees, another religious dimension held sway: Trump gave Israel his blessing because it benefited his powerful evangelical Christian base.
Although Petro won a majority in only eight of 32 provinces, and the capital Bogota, the fact that a leftist advanced to the presidential runoff is historic in Colombia, where traditionally conservative politicians have held sway.
The latest round of unrest began in late 2014 amid angry protests by Houthis, a minority Shiite group that's long held sway in northern Yemen but hadn't had much influence in the country's Sunni-led government.
He said he had been swept up in an evil wave when he joined "a group of deviant people of Al Qaeda and Ansar Dine," an Islamist offshoot that held sway in northern Mali in 2012.
NBC's red-carpet hosts insisted even before the show began that the Globes still possessed a celebratory feel, despite the sexual-harassment shadow that hung over an event where accused predator Harvey Weinstein once held sway.
VENETO, Italy Veneto separatists still mourn the decline of the Most Serene Republic of Venice, a sovereign state in northeastern Italy that held sway for around 1,100 years before it fell to foreign forces in 1797.
It has cut funding for that initiative, and last year land used for coca production reached a new high, while paramilitaries and criminal gangs, also lured by cocaine profits, dominate regions where FARC once held sway.
And then Condé Nast announced later in 2017 that, in a belt-tightening move, it would shut down various satellite Vogue editions — for brides, children, jewelry and men — over which Ms. Sozzani had long held sway.
As one of the forum's moderators recalled, the thought was that the white users who held sway in nearly all of Reddit's 157,100 other communities, known as subreddits, would see no need to dominate this one.
Populism arose in the cultural, rather than the political, arena in part because democratic yearnings were much harder to exercise in politics, where despite all the American professions of egalitarianism, the moneyed class still held sway.
A victory for Lopez Obrador would mark a historic leftward shift in Mexico, Latin America's second-largest economy, where centrist technocrats have held sway for decades, and could complicate relations with top trade partner the United States.
The journey from the east of Syria, where IS held sway, would require crossing either regime-held territory or a stretch of land ringed with Turkish observation posts—difficult, but not impossible for a man with means.
Otherwise and elsewhere, what he called "Britalian" food held sway: ragù that was just flavoured mince, avocado served with a gloop made of ketchup and mayonnaise and, to finish, oranges in a sickly syrup masquerading as caramelata.
Where blockbuster movies previously held sway, TV stepped in to fill the vacuum in a big way, with the trailers for shows like Luke Cage and the new season of Sherlock getting huge responses from fans online.
The candidates were confirmed anyway as the NLD held sway on the commission, but military disapproval highlighted a widening rift between Suu Kyi and the armed forces as her party prepares to take power on April 1.
This consensus held sway for decades, even as the terminology shifted, settling in 212 on "post-traumatic stress disorder," a coinage tailored to the unique social and emotional strain of returning veterans of the war in Vietnam.
In this scenario, things look good for the likes of AT&T and Comcast, for example, and not so rosy for the likes of Amazon and Google, which held sway with Obama and were avidly anti-Trump.
The MQM has held sway over Pakistan's commercial hub for years and law enforcement agencies, its opponents and many residents have accused it of racketeering, abduction, torture and murder of opponents in its bid to maintain power.
Whatever forms of matter can be made from that bank of energy — particles and forces that held sway when the universe was young — can reappear and briefly strut their stuff through labyrinths of electronic detectors and computers.
Last week, the new president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, was inaugurated following an election that the army had pushed for, but which the opposition had denounced as illegitimate so long as the old guard of rulers still held sway.
The simple distinction of disco as a "joke," as opposed to something "serious," is one that has long held sway in the art world, and like all seemingly simple distinctions, it works hard to suppress its true intentions.
This was billed as marking a friendlier approach to dealing with foreigners, but the agency's staff still belong to the Ministry of Public Security, China's police, which has always held sway over such matters and is deeply conservative.
Samaha's initial four-year sentence and later release on bail prompted bitter protests from opponents of Assad, who saw the decisions as unduly lenient and evidence that Damascus and its ally Hezbollah held sway over the justice system.
Smoot-Hawley "was such a disaster that it's held sway over American trade policy for over 21892 years," said Joshua Meltzer, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who also teaches international trade law at Johns Hopkins University.
Russian and Syrian troops drove through a key town where the United States had held sway and picked over abandoned American outposts to announce their presence in the area and deter the Turkish incursion that began last week.
As a minuscule country that for a few shining centuries — rather like Britain, six hundred years later — expanded and held sway around a goodly part of the globe, from Vietnam, Burma and China to Hungary, Thrace and Poland.
A source associated with the Independent Cartel of Acapulco, the group that has held sway the city in recent years, said La Señora's effort to retake control was backed by an alliance with the growing Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
The greenback has been on the defensive as views that the U.S. central bank is in no hurry to tighten monetary policy have held sway ever since Fed Chair Janet Yellen last week expressed caution towards hiking interest rates.
Albanians fell in love with the United States in 1919, when world leaders gathered at the Paris Peace Conference to redesign the world after World War I dismantled the empires that had held sway over much of the planet.
DE) Mercedes-Benz have held sway in the market for high-performance limousines for decades, but analysts warn a shift toward electric and self-driving cars could open the door to new challengers, such as U.S. manufacturer Tesla (TSLA.
Without such an agreement, a new renewable project, exposed to the ups and down of the wholesale power market and unable to count on generous subsidy schemes that once held sway across Europe, could struggle to raise bank finance.
The idea that the United States is and has always been quintessentially liberal was solidified by Louis Hartz, whose book The Liberal Tradition in America held sway in American political thought from the mid-1950s into the mid-'70s.
Swift action in the Republican-controlled statehouse, where the powerful NRA gun lobbying organization has long held sway, was propelled in large part by an extraordinary counter-lobbying campaign waged by young survivors from the massacre and parents of the victims.
Salvini hopes to get a major boost at the EU ballot to enhance his position on the European stage as he draws together an alliance of eurosceptic, nationalist parties to challenge the mainstream forces that have long held sway in Brussels.
"Political clans have held sway in Brazilian state politics, but we have never seen a family dominate the federal government this way before, or attack the vice president like this," said Carlos Couto, a politics professor at think tank FGV.
He will be nominated as president rather than taking on Suzuki's former title of chief executive officer, a sign other executives aren't ready to grant him the same deference they showed his predecessor who held sway for decades, the sources said.
Her suspension showed that when it came to the high stakes and intense scrutiny of presidential politics, the establishment's view of Ms. Zimmerman and her brethren as dangerous radicals still held sway even with Mr. Sanders, a candidate promising a revolution.
"I hope that this pearl of world civilization, or at least what's left of it after bandits have held sway there, will be returned to the Syrian people and the entire world," Putin said, referring to the World Heritage Site.
The greenback has been on the defensive as views that the U.S. central bank is in no hurry to tighten monetary policy have held sway ever since Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen last week expressed caution towards hiking interest rates.
How Mr. Zelensky handles the Ukrainian authorities' protracted dispute with Mr. Kolomoisky is a key test of his election promises to break the grip of the oligarchs, who have held sway over the country's politics almost since independence in 1991.
British soldiers seized thousands of metal castings from the then separate Kingdom of Benin in 1897, one of a series of acts of plunder that have long tainted relations between London and the territories where its agents held sway in the 19th century.
Lying embalmed in his mausoleum on Red Square, his body was real and bound to the moment, but there was nothing about the body that connected him to the time when he held sway; he, too, was simultaneously inside and outside time.
But only 43 percent of the eligible voters in Catalonia went to the ballot box on October 1; many voters avoided a referendum they felt had been imposed upon them by a slim majority of secessionists who held sway in the Catalan parliament.
"But this tells them that the national security professionals they've been talking to behind closed doors really have held sway and the US policy is following what they have always promised, which is to crack down," said Kirby, a former State Department spokesman.
"There are certain suspicions and I do not claim to know everything, but it be could ISIS or the Baath Party," he said, referring to disgruntled remnants of the Sunni establishment that held sway over Iraq before the American invasion of 2003.
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - A former mayor campaigning on an anti-corruption ticket swept to victory in El Salvador's presidential election on Sunday, bringing an end to a two-party system that has held sway over the violence-plagued Central American country for three decades.
Dodd belongs to a group of artists who refused to accommodate their work to the commercial and aesthetic pressures that crystallized in the 1950s and have held sway ever since: it must be big and it must treat the right subject in the right way.
Swift action in the Republican-controlled statehouse, where the National Rifle Association (NRA) has long held sway, was propelled in large part by the extraordinary lobbying efforts of young survivors from the massacre three weeks ago at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
They are besieged in one sq km (0.4 square mile) making up less than 40 percent of the Old City and less than one percent of the total area of Mosul, the largest urban centre over which they held sway in both Iraq and Syria.
"This is the next step in the continuing breakdown of political norms that had held sway in China's reform era," said Carl Minzner, a professor of law at Fordham University in New York and author of a new book on Mr. Xi's increasing authoritarianism.
He was raised in Weed, a small Northern California town where the politics lean libertarian and where the Jefferson movement, which proposes breaking off the northernmost bit of California and a slice of southern Oregon to form a new state, has long held sway.
Mr. Zelensky, a former comedian, won a landslide victory in presidential elections just under a year ago after promising to break the grip of the oligarchs, the insiders who have held sway over Ukraine's politics and economy since the country declared its independence in 1991.
Several of the owners declined to speak on the record about a man who held sway over some of the league's most important matters, including labor negotiations, the selection of a new commissioner and which teams would be allowed to move to Los Angeles.
Having worked in printmaking and sculpture before turning to paint and canvas, he resisted the Neo-Expressionist indulgences that held sway among his peer group, engaging instead in a measured approach that had more in common with Beuys's minimalist protégés, Blinky Palermo and Imi Knoebel.
The school of which he is headmaster, Escola Portuguesa de Macau, is the only one in the southern Chinese city that still follows the curriculum taught in Portugal, which until 1999 had held sway in Macau, more or less, for nearly four-and-a-half centuries.
Thanks to a vagary of history, there is one little patch of the European Union where sharia has hitherto held sway, not as a self-imposed code of behaviour but as a system under which Muslim citizens have been pressured to regulate their business, especially involving inheritance.
For most of the time since 1945, he argues, democratic Europe was cosily circumscribed and sheltered: not just from communism by the Iron Curtain, but also from the world of Islam by the authoritarian secular regimes which held sway in North Africa and the Middle East.
The Democratic Party, which emerged out of the revolution, will slug it out against the MPP which had held sway during earlier decades of Soviet hegemony, and later reinvented itself as a social-democrat party and either led or was partner in coalitions between 2002 to 2012.
They included a recent nasty public spat with a city councilman who held sway over an important housing vote; court battles over his administration's lack of transparency; and the lifting of a deed restriction that allowed a nursing home to be sold to luxury condominium developers.
KABUL, Afghanistan — President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan fired the powerful governor of Balkh Province on Monday, ousting an official who had held sway over a northern economic powerhouse for 13 years and who had amassed great wealth even as he fended off previous attempts to unseat him.
Mr. Cohn is among a handful of senior executives who have held sway atop Goldman since before the financial crisis, and he is among the last of them to leave, even as Lloyd Blankfein, the chief executive and chairman, seems in no hurry to step down.
Amazon clearly wants to give you plenty of options to take Alexa with you when you leave the house, the only place it's really held sway so far — but can Amazon actually convince people that it's the voice interface for everywhere, and not just for home?
More than 22015 people ended up in prison because of a conspiracy theory alleging mass Satanic ritual sexual abuse taking place in day care facilities in the 29s — a conspiracy theory that held sway within police departments across the country and even in New Zealand and Canada.
In 1492, Sicily's once-flourishing Jewish community was expelled by the Spanish monarchs who held sway over the island; some fled to the nearby Kingdom of Naples but they were soon driven out of that realm, too, and duly headed eastwards to the comparative safety of Ottoman territory.
Occuring right in India's backyard, these projects — part of China's massive "Belt and Road " infrastructure program — are a worrying development for New Delhi, which has long held sway as the region's major power and comes just weeks following the end of a Sino-Indian border dispute in the Himalayas.
The contemporary weakness of organized labor and the threatened status of employees has roots in the breakdown in the 1970s of the postwar capital-labor accord — what A.H. Raskin, the legendary labor reporter for The Times, called a "live-and-let-live relationship" that held sway for 30 years.
"It will be remembered forever, how we of all Greeks held sway over the greatest number of Greeks, how in the greatest wars we held out against our foes whether united or single, and inhabited a city that was the richest in all things and the greatest," he declared.
The latest episode is thought to involve fighting between First Capital Command, commonly known by its Portuguese initials, P.C.C., which has roots in the prisons of São Paulo in southeastern Brazil, and supporters of Red Command, a drug trafficking organization that has long held sway in Rio de Janeiro.
Elmet belongs to a strain of northern British gothic that mirrors the variety that has long held sway in the southern states of the U.S. The gothic has always returned to us what we repress, whether that be monks hiding in priest holes or bodies buried in swamps.
Mr. Make-America-Great-Again stood shoulder to shoulder with Mr. Brexit to make the point that, on both sides of the Atlantic, the same disruptive movements aim to break the free-trade, pro-globalization neoliberal consensus that has held sway in the West for at least a quarter-century.
Experts from many countries are trying to assess the damage in Syria's old cities but also in the area where the Islamic State held sway that is straddling Iraq and Syria, the region that is seen as central to human history and often called the birthplace of modern economics and writing.
The larger question in the wake of the 2018 elections is whether the forces that propelled Democrats into the majority in the House are powerful and persistent enough to force a shift from the rightward direction of policymaking that has held sway over a significant stretch of the past 40 years.
"If we take a step back and look at the world around us, one of the most important drivers becomes clear -- the forces of liberalism and globalization which have held sway in Britain, America and across the Western world for years have left too many people behind," May said at a banquet.
In questioning Todd Robinson, the current United States ambassador to Guatemala, who worked under the ambassador to the Dominican Republic at the time Dr. Melgen was involved in the port dispute, prosecutors highlighted Mr. Menendez's seat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which Mr. Robinson said held sway over the State Department.
Both Ms. Warren and Mr. Sanders have boycotted the big-money circuit, raising the possibility of a watershed moment: The two top fund-raisers in the Democratic Party might end up being candidates who have turned their backs on the established class of political bundlers and financiers who have held sway for decades.
The extremists have now been routed from much of their former stronghold, but where they once held sway, another horror has been revealed: More than five million people face acute food shortages, and nearly 44,000 face famine, which is declared when, among other criteria, two or more people out of 10,000 die every day.
"White genocide" rhetoric circulated in mail-order publications and racist websites like Stormfront for much of the 21s and 2000s, but also held sway within policy institutes and foundations that gave cover to scientific racism, also known as "racial realism" — a belief that racism is not only based in fact but has scientific and quantitative backing.
Some of the newfound lines belong to the Nasca culture, which held sway in the area from 200 to 700 A.D. However, archaeologists suspect that the earlier Paracas and Topará cultures carved many of the newfound images between 500 B.C. and 200 A.D.Nat Geo reports that the discovery's origins began back when Greenpeace vandalized and damaged the lines to get attention in 2014.
Washington state's lawsuit challenging Trump's executive order on immigration emerged out of a chaotic, 48-hour period in which the need for immediate action held sway over the kind of carefully thought-out strategizing that usually leads up to the filing of a major legal complaint, according to state Attorney General Bob Ferguson and other attorneys involved in actions against the order.
The notion that might have held sway until this week, that North Korea was prepared to meet with Trump and put "nukes" on the table, is no longer the case, said Mike Chinoy, a former CNN correspondent and author of "Meltdown: The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis," who has made regular visits to North Korea in the past.
Driving the news: Wall Street Journal reporter Tripp Mickle will write an as-yet-untitled book for William Morrow about the iPhone maker's last decade since the death of co-founder Steve Jobs in 2011 — the era in which design chief Jony Ive held sway over product design while CEO Tim Cook steered the companyt to new market highs and new revenue from services.
This alliance is a marriage of convenience that has survived for more than two and half centuries and is the key to the political economy of Saudi Arabia in which the Saudis have retained absolute authority -- so much so that their family name is embedded in the name of the country -- while the Wahhabi religious establishment sanctions the rule of the absolute monarchy and has largely held sway over the social mores of Saudi society.
Ms. Merkel has been a sometimes lonely champion for a compassionate approach toward refugees, and for the increasingly endangered liberal consensus that has held sway in Europe since the end of World War II. Mr. Trump's comments Monday were the latest by him, his aides or his associates that suggest a desire to disrupt that consensus, a desire that has seemingly deepened as they find more ideological allies in Europe to work with.

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