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Hold sway

verb

Be master; reign or rule.

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"Hold sway" Quotes from Famous Books

... interest in the matters of their own government—community, state, national, and now international. We must realise and ever more fully realise that in a government such as ours, the people are the government, and that when in it anything goes wrong, or wrongs and injustices are allowed to grow and hold sway, we are to blame. ...

— The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit • Ralph Waldo Trine

... and Curtis did not live in Pacific Avenue where the Popes hold sway, nor yet in California Street where the Crockers are wont to entertain their millionaire friends. Where they lived, there were no massive granite steps flanked with equally massive pillars—such as herald the approach to the Nob Hill palaces; no rare glass bow-windows looking ...

— The Sorcery Club • Elliott O'Donnell

... MAB, an Execusec conducted him to the door of the "Think-Box." He stared disapprovingly after her. "When the Soldiers hold sway, modesty will ...

— Telempathy • Vance Simonds

Words linked to "Hold sway" : command, control