Rebel forces hold sway over much of the island.
Powerful traditional chiefs hold sway over more than 15 million people in rural areas.
Here bad people hold sway while good people suffer and justice is trodden down underfoot.
He proposes that Rome should allow the Parthians to hold sway over the territory east of the Euphrates.
Some American statesmen hope to exert pressure on China so as to hold sway on the latter.
With this action, American officials hope that, in turn, restrictions on foreign firms doing Business in China will be relaxed, especially those that hold sway over securities trading.
By the time the genes could evolve a hardwired predilection for making fires and an aversion to performing rain dances, completely different fads could arise and hold sway.
Bad elements hold sway, while good people are pushed around.; The bad eggs wielded power， while the good people were oppressed.
But the FIG tree replied, 'Should I give up my fruit, so good and sweet, to hold sway over the trees?'
As the executive producer who has granted permission on behalf of the Sinatra estate for Scorsese to use all of her father's famous songs, it is Tina's opinion that could hold sway.
Above the ruins of Ar Noy, the Qohorik rule the river, and below the Sorrows the galleys of Volantis hold sway, but neither city claims the waters in between, so the pirates have made it their own.
Thus: In the realistic society, the expert in no field can hold sway over a region all one's life, the professor of more no field can know after sitting and gathering around.
